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

Ezra Pound

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
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
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
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
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
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
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
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
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
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
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Artist Craft Interest Live Modern Violence

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