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Ezra Pound

Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
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
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
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
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 act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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Act Imply People Point Quiet Ring Symbol
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
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Art Goodness Immoral Precise True Virtue
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
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
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
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
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Addiction Appetite Discover Fact
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
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

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