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Ezra Pound

Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
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 lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
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
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Art Goodness Immoral Precise True Virtue
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
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
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Difference Spring Tree Weapon
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation

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