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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Ezra Pound

Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking
And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Day Enough Night Shake
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
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
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
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
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
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
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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Himself Hope Man Measurement Nation Time
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
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas

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