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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.

Ezra Pound

Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
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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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
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
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Accurate Clear Goodness Language Writing
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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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
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
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
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
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 have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race

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