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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

The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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Art Bound Convention Poetry Sound Symbol
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 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
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Better Finding Mental Myself
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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Argument Oneself People Start Technique Truth
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Build Money Pursue State
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
If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing

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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