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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

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
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
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
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
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
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
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
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
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race Yourself
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight

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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