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Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.

Ezra Pound

With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Day Enough Night Shake
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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Device Emotion Energy Familiar Oneself Pattern Represent Rhyme
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Body Chemicals Death Limitation Moments Necessary
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right

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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