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Ezra Pound

The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
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
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
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Artist Green Invention Learning Place True World
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
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
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Artist Creation Himself Work
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
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
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Body Chemicals Death Limitation Moments Necessary

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