Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
EZRA POUNDHere is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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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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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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