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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.

Ezra Pound

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
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
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
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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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Accurate Clear Goodness Language Writing
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
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
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
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
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Empire Grip Growth Lose People Process Writing

The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.

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