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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

A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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Better Friendship Pity Remember Rich
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
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
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
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Empire Grip Growth Lose People Process Writing
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Difference Spring Tree Weapon

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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