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Ezra Pound

Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race Yourself
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Difference Spring Tree Weapon
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
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
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
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage Love True Well
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth

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