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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.

Ezra Pound

What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
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
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
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
Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Art Goodness Immoral Precise True Virtue
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
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
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
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
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
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Addiction Appetite Discover Fact
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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History International Politics Yourself
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
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous

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