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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.

Ezra Pound

A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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General Meet Statement Value
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
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
The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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Artist Category Herself Nature Paragraph Serious
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
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
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
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
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

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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