Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
EZRA POUNDI have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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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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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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