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

Ezra Pound

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
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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Element Leaving Oneself Regular Rhyme
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
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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Color Nature Togetherness Tree
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Artist Green Invention Learning Place True World
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
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
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
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom

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