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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.

Ezra Pound

Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
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
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Energy Ideas Image
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
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
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Care Concept Genius Inferior Madness Public
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
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
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
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 history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom

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