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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.

Ezra Pound

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
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 artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Color Nature Togetherness Tree
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
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
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
Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Body Chemicals Death Limitation Moments Necessary
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
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Advertisement Science Soap Way
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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History International Politics Yourself
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple

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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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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