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Writing Quotes by Ezra Pound
- The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
- Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.
- Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
- The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing meet with contempt,…
- The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain…
- No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks…
- Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don't use such an expression as 'dim land of peace.' It dulls the image.…
- Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
- No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
- 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…
- Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
- The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
- It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.
- I have tried to write Paradise Do not move Let the wind speak that is paradise. Let the Gods forgive what I have made Let…
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