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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.

Ezra Pound

Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
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
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
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
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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Finding Greatness Magic Master Mindset Romanticism Science
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
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
Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race Yourself
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet

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