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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

Ezra Pound

The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Artificial Ignorance Moments Myself Natural
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Debt Implement Loan Modern Old Slave Time War
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
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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Ability Art Genius Himself Man Material Ordinary Perception Talent
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
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
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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Compare Deserve Forever Glossary Master Necessary Reading
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Addiction Appetite Discover Fact
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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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Body Chemicals Death Limitation Moments Necessary
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

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