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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

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
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
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Advertisement Science Soap Way
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
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
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
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
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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Element Leaving Oneself Regular Rhyme
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
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
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
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch

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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