good writer chooses words ‘meaning’, meaning a a set, cut-off thing li — Ezra Pound, ABC Reading

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And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-board. It comes up with roots, with associations, with how and where the word is familiarly used, or where it has been used brilliantly or memorably.

Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading

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