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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

Ezra Pound

A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
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
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Advertisement Science Soap Way
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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Curse Early Financial Ourselves Time
Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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Art Bound Convention Poetry Sound Symbol
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
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Artist Creation Himself Work
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
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
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Complication Death Himself Man Organism

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