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 clichT, not from real life.
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One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do. A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.Ezra Pound
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 Whose world, or mine or theirs or is it of none First came the seen, then thus the palpable Elysium, though it were in the halls of hell. What thou lovest well is thy true heritage.
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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.
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I have sung women in three cities.
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Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.
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