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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.

Ezra Pound

When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
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
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
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
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
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
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
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Approval Ban Believe Music View
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay

With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.

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