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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.

Ezra Pound

The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Energy Ideas Image
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
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
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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Curse Early Financial Ourselves Time
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Artist Green Invention Learning Place True World
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Debt Implement Loan Modern Old Slave Time War
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
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Complication Death Himself Man Organism

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