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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

Ezra Pound

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
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Answer Balance Civilization Serious Value
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Attention Himself Page Popular Reading Secret Writing
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Approval Ban Believe Music View
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
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
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand

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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