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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
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
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
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Education Insist Limit Reality
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
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
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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Better Finding Mental Myself
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion
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
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
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

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

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