Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
EZRA POUNDHumanity 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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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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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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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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