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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

Ezra Pound

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
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
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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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Complication Death Himself Man Organism
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Addiction Appetite Discover Fact
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Beginning Dance Far Music Poetry
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Day Enough Night Shake
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth

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