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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.

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Ezra Pound
Age: 87 †
Born: 1885
Born: October 30
Died: 1972
Died: November 1
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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The artist is always beginning.
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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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What counts is the cultural level
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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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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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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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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.
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small talk comes from small bones
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That text is known to them that have the patience to read it, possibly one one-hundredth of one percent of the denizens. They forget it, all save a few Western states. I think somebody in Dakota once read it. The Constitution.
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I have tried to write Paradise Do not move Let the wind speak that is paradise. Let the Gods forgive what I have made Let those I love try to forgive what I have made.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic -- I mean my motion.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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