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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
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
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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History International Politics Yourself
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
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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Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race Yourself
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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Device Emotion Energy Familiar Oneself Pattern Represent Rhyme
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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Himself Hope Man Measurement Nation Time
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain

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