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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.

Ezra Pound

Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work 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
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Addiction Appetite Discover Fact
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
Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Art Goodness Immoral Precise True Virtue
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
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
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
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
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
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing

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