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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.

Ezra Pound

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 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
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
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
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Beginning Dance Far Music Poetry
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
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision

Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.

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