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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 natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
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
If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
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
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Better Finding Mental Myself
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Body Chemicals Death Limitation Moments Necessary
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
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Artist Build Creation Equality Money World
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
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

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