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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 Pound

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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Art Bound Convention Poetry Sound Symbol
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
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
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
A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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Himself Hope Man Measurement Nation Time

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.

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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.

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