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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.

Ezra Pound

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
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
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
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
And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Day Enough Night Shake
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
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
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Empire Grip Growth Lose People Process Writing
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol

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