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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
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
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
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
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
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
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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Act Imply People Point Quiet Ring Symbol
Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Blame Hero Himself Religion Stand Wisdom
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Artist Creation Himself Work
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work

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