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EZRA POUNDHere is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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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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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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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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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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