The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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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In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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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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Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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The artist is always beginning.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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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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Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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