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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.

Ezra Pound

Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
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
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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Curse Early Financial Ourselves Time
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
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
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
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
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
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
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
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself

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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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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