Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
EZRA POUNDNo man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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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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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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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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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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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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