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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.

Ezra Pound

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
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
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage Love True Well
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Myself Oneself Suicide Thinking Unknown
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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General Meet Statement Value
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
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing

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