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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.

Ezra Pound

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
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
Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Blame Hero Himself Religion Stand Wisdom
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
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
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
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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Curse Early Financial Ourselves Time
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Artist Craft Interest Live Modern Violence
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
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
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Artist Build Creation Equality Money World
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 apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Color Nature Togetherness Tree
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Artist Green Invention Learning Place True World
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
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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Himself Hope Man Measurement Nation Time
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.

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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.

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