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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Ezra Pound

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
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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Consciousness Essence Existence God Intimate Product Universe
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
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
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
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
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Empire Grip Growth Lose People Process Writing
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Artist Green Invention Learning Place True World

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