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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 temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
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
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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Artist Craft Interest Live Modern Violence
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Empire Grip Growth Lose People Process Writing
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
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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Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race Yourself
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
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
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight

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

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