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Technique is the test of sincerity.

Ezra Pound

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
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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Art Bound Convention Poetry Sound Symbol
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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Finding Greatness Magic Master Mindset Romanticism Science
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
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
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
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
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
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
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm

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