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Ezra Pound
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Sir Humphrey Davy:
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Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
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No language is rude that can boast polite writers.
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Look for no reward in goodness but goodness itself.
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Bertolt Brecht:
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Show interest in her goodness — for no one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Bertolt Brecht:
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Euripides :
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In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.
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Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows.
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Ali Ibn-Abi-Talib:
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To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
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The measure of your holiness is proportionate to the goodness of your will.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Ezra Pound:
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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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Ezra Pound:
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All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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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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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature is news that STAYS news.
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