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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

Ezra Pound

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
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
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
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing

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