Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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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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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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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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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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Every great change is simple.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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The artist is always beginning.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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