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From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.

Ezra Pound

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
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
The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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Artist Category Herself Nature Paragraph Serious
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself 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
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
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Answer Balance Civilization Serious Value
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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Attention Himself Page Popular Reading Secret Writing
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Debt Implement Loan Modern Old Slave Time War
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
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

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