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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.

Ezra Pound

Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
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
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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Device Emotion Energy Familiar Oneself Pattern Represent Rhyme
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Addiction Appetite Discover Fact
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
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
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
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

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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