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

Ezra Pound

I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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Compare Deserve Forever Glossary Master Necessary Reading
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
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
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
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
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Addiction Appetite Discover Fact
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

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