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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

Ezra Pound

The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Energy Ideas Image
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
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
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Advertisement Science Soap Way
Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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Ability Art Genius Himself Man Material Ordinary Perception Talent

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

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