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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

I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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Element Leaving Oneself Regular Rhyme
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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Approval Ban Believe Music View
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Difference Spring Tree Weapon
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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Better Friendship Pity Remember Rich
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
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
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk

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

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