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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.

Ezra Pound

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Answer Balance Civilization Serious Value
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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Device Emotion Energy Familiar Oneself Pattern Represent Rhyme
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Complication Death Himself Man Organism
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
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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Art Bound Convention Poetry Sound Symbol
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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Better Friendship Pity Remember Rich
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave

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