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Ezra Pound

Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
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
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
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
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
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
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
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
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
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well

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