Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
EZRA POUNDMusic 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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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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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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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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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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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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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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Either move or be moved.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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