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Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

Ezra Pound

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
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
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
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
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
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Attention Himself Page Popular Reading Secret Writing
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
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
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
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom

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