The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
EZRA POUNDGood writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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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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Rhythm must have meaning.
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The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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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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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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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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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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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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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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Small talk comes from small bones.
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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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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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