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Ezra Pound

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
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Empire Grip Growth Lose People Process Writing
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
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
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
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Attention Himself Page Popular Reading Secret Writing
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Art Goodness Immoral Precise True Virtue
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Artificial Ignorance Moments Myself Natural
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right

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