To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
EZRA POUNDPoetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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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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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Every great change is simple.
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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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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