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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

Ezra Pound

If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Approval Ban Believe Music View
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Beginning Dance Far Music Poetry
Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Artist Creation Himself Work
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Difference Spring Tree Weapon
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Advertisement Science Soap Way
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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Himself Hope Man Measurement Nation Time

Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

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