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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

This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
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
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
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
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
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
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
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
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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General Meet Statement Value
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test

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