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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

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
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
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
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
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
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
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
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
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
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 what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason

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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