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

Ezra Pound

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
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
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
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 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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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
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
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
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

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