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The only history that matters is the history we know.

Ezra Pound

The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Better Finding Mental Myself
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
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
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
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 modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Artist Craft Interest Live Modern Violence
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Myself Oneself Suicide Thinking Unknown
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
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
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
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
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

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