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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

And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Day Enough Night Shake
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
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
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom
The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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Artist Category Herself Nature Paragraph Serious
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
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
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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General Meet Statement Value
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
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time

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

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