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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.

Ezra Pound

Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Artificial Ignorance Moments Myself Natural
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Beginning Dance Far Music Poetry
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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Finding Greatness Magic Master Mindset Romanticism Science
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
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
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible

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