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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. It doesn't matter whether the good writer wants to be useful, or whether the good writer wants to be harm.
— Ezra Pound ABC of Reading
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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
— Ezra Pound
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
— Ezra Pound
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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
— Ezra Pound
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
— Ezra Pound
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Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
— Ezra Pound
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