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Poetry must be as well written as prose.

Ezra Pound

Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
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
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste
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
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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Answer Balance Civilization Serious Value
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
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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Build Money Pursue State
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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General Meet Statement Value
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 desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas

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