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Poetry must be as well written as prose.

Ezra Pound

Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion
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
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
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
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
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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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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Artist Category Herself Nature Paragraph Serious
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Education Insist Limit Reality
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Beginning Dance Far Music Poetry
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Difference Spring Tree Weapon
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
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
Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Body Chemicals Death Limitation Moments Necessary
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
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
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity

Poetry must be as well written as prose.

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