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

Ezra Pound

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
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
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Answer Balance Civilization Serious Value
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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Argument Oneself People Start Technique Truth
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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Better Friendship Pity Remember Rich
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Care Concept Genius Inferior Madness Public

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

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