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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.

Ezra Pound

When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Care Concept Genius Inferior Madness Public
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
USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Cancer Life World
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
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
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
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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Artificial Ignorance Moments Myself Natural
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Approval Ban Believe Music View
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race

Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.

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