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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.

Ezra Pound

The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
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
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste
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
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
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
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
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War
Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right

I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.

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