Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
EZRA POUNDIt 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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If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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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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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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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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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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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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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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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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