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

Ezra Pound

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Artist Build Creation Equality Money World
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 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 would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
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
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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Device Emotion Energy Familiar Oneself Pattern Represent Rhyme
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
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
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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Compare Deserve Forever Glossary Master Necessary Reading
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
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
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Color Nature Togetherness Tree

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