Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
EZRA POUNDConsider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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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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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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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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One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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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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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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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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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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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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