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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.

Ezra Pound

The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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General Meet Statement Value
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage Love True Well
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
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Empire Grip Growth Lose People Process Writing
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
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
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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Finding Greatness Magic Master Mindset Romanticism Science
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain

Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.

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