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

Ezra Pound

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
USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Cancer Life World
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Difference Spring Tree Weapon
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing
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
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
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
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage Love True Well
In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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Element Leaving Oneself Regular Rhyme
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
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
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

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

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