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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.

Ezra Pound

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
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
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
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 technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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Argument Oneself People Start Technique Truth
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage Love True Well
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
Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing

The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.

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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.

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