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Ezra Pound

What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage Love True Well
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Artist Craft Interest Live Modern Violence
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
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 did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
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
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol

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