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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

Ezra Pound

Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Advertisement Science Soap Way
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
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
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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Act Imply People Point Quiet Ring Symbol
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
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
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Care Concept Genius Inferior Madness Public
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.
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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
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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Device Emotion Energy Familiar Oneself Pattern Represent Rhyme
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Accurate Clear Goodness Language Writing

Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

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