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The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.

Ezra Pound

The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Artist Creation Himself Work
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Answer Balance Civilization Serious Value
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
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Myself Oneself Suicide Thinking Unknown
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
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
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Energy Ideas Image
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter

The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.

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