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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
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Artist Green Invention Learning Place True World
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Accurate Clear Goodness Language Writing
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Complication Death Himself Man Organism
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage Love True Well
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
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
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
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
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race Yourself
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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General Meet Statement Value
Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Art Goodness Immoral Precise True Virtue
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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Art Bound Convention Poetry Sound Symbol
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
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
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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Argument Oneself People Start Technique Truth

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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