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is, when good, always realism of one sort or another.

is a brief gasp between one cliche and another.

is one who should know more and write less.

is merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other.

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing... of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later. (Ezra Pound)

is ultimately limited to only those men who insist on knowing... the rest is mere sheep-herding.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing... the rest is mere sheep-herding. (Ezra Pound)

is spliced cinematography in paintings and diarrhea in writing.

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

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

is a place where we have pulled down the stars to our will.

And New York is the most beautiful city in the world' It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there'. Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. Ezra Pound

is square after square of flame cut into the upper ether.

And New York is the most beautiful city in the world' It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there. . . Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. Ezra Pound

is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human emotions.

poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human emotions.

's vitality is concentrated in a few individuals.

is the root of all evil, or damn near all.

is a waste. If one is going to do it, one ought to bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.

I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.

is, in its modern form, unfortunate in that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

is good who keeps the language efficient.

is dead when one ceases to have omnivorous curiosity. A book should be a ball of light in a reader's hand.

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