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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

Ezra Pound

The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
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
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
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
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
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Artificial Ignorance Moments Myself Natural
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
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
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
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
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

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