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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

This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
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
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Approval Ban Believe Music View
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
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
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
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
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
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Empire Grip Growth Lose People Process Writing
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

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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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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