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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.

Ezra Pound

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
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
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Color Nature Togetherness Tree
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
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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Attention Himself Page Popular Reading Secret Writing
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
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
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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Element Leaving Oneself Regular Rhyme
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing

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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