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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.

Ezra Pound

To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
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
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
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
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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Art Bound Convention Poetry Sound Symbol
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
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Accurate Clear Goodness Language Writing
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple

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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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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