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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.

Ezra Pound

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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Beginning Dance Far Music Poetry
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Accurate Clear Goodness Language Writing
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Attention Himself Page Popular Reading Secret Writing
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
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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Artist Creation Himself Work
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
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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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Complication Death Himself Man Organism
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word

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