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

Ezra Pound

Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
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.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
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
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
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
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
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
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
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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History International Politics Yourself

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

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