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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.

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
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
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
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
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
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Artist Craft Interest Live Modern Violence
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
If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing

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