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Ezra Pound

Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Addiction Appetite Discover Fact
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Build Money Pursue State
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Advertisement Science Soap Way
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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Better Friendship Pity Remember Rich
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing

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