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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.

Ezra Pound

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
Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Art Goodness Immoral Precise True Virtue
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
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
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Cancer Life World
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm 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
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Artist Green Invention Learning Place True World
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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Curse Early Financial Ourselves Time
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
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
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
And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Day Enough Night Shake
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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Act Imply People Point Quiet Ring Symbol
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity

To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.

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