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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.

Ezra Pound

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Artificial Ignorance Moments Myself Natural
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
To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Build Money Pursue State
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
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
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
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
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
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
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Color Nature Togetherness Tree
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Body Chemicals Death Limitation Moments Necessary
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
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
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Energy Ideas Image
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
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
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
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
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple

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