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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.

Ezra Pound

Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
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
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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Ability Art Genius Himself Man Material Ordinary Perception Talent
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 serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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Artist Category Herself Nature Paragraph Serious
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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Art Bound Convention Poetry Sound Symbol
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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Empire Grip Growth Lose People Process Writing
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
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

With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.

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