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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

Ezra Pound

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
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
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
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
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Artist Build Creation Equality Money World
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
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Better Finding Mental Myself
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Cancer Life World
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself

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