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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Ezra Pound

It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
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
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Cancer Life World
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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Finding Greatness Magic Master Mindset Romanticism Science
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
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
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
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 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
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

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