Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
EZRA POUNDNo 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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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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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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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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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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Wars are made to make debt.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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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.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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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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