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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.

Ezra Pound

Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
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
A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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Himself Hope Man Measurement Nation Time
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
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
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
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
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
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
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Advertisement Science Soap Way

The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.

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