Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
EZRA POUNDThe only history that matters is the history we know.
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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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.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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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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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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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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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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