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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.

Ezra Pound

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Beginning Dance Far Music Poetry
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
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
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Addiction Appetite Discover Fact
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
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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Compare Deserve Forever Glossary Master Necessary Reading
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
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
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
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

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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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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