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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.

Ezra Pound

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
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
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Approval Ban Believe Music View
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
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
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
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
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
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
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
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
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
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

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