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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.

Ezra Pound

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Empire Grip Growth Lose People Process Writing
Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Blame Hero Himself Religion Stand Wisdom
To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Build Money Pursue State
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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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Education Insist Limit Reality
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
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
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War
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 history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work

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