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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

Ezra Pound

The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
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
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
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
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth 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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Complication Death Himself Man Organism
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
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Color Nature Togetherness Tree

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