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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

Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
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
In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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Element Leaving Oneself Regular Rhyme
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
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
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 only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Artist Creation Himself Work
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory

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