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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

Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
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
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Care Concept Genius Inferior Madness Public
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
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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Art Bound Convention Poetry Sound Symbol
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Artist Creation Himself Work
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Myself Oneself Suicide Thinking Unknown

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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