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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.

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
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
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
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
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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Element Leaving Oneself Regular Rhyme
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
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War
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
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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History International Politics Yourself
The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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Artist Category Herself Nature Paragraph Serious
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Energy Ideas Image
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
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
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Artist Build Creation Equality Money World
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
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

I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.

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