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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.

Ezra Pound

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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Empire Grip Growth Lose People Process Writing
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
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
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Difference Spring Tree Weapon
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Artist Creation Himself Work
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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Element Leaving Oneself Regular Rhyme
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
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
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Artist Build Creation Equality Money World

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.

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