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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

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
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Artist Craft Interest Live Modern Violence
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Accurate Clear Goodness Language Writing
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Beginning Dance Far Music Poetry
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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Artist Category Herself Nature Paragraph Serious
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom

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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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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