Every great change is simple.
EZRA POUND
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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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Every great change is simple.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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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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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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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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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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What thou lovest well remains.
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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