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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

What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Color Nature Togetherness Tree
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Myself Oneself Suicide Thinking Unknown
Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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Compare Deserve Forever Glossary Master Necessary Reading
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Energy Ideas Image
Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Blame Hero Himself Religion Stand Wisdom
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
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
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
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
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing

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

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