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The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.

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
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
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
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
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
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
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
Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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Consciousness Essence Existence God Intimate Product Universe
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
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

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.

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The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.

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