When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
EZRA POUNDGood writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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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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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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