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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

Ezra Pound

Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
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
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
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
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Debt Implement Loan Modern Old Slave Time War
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
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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Finding Greatness Magic Master Mindset Romanticism Science
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
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
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
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 language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Attention Himself Page Popular Reading Secret Writing

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