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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

Ezra Pound

What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
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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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Body Chemicals Death Limitation Moments Necessary
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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Consciousness Essence Existence God Intimate Product Universe
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
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
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
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

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

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