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.
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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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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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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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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Either move or be moved.
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And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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