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 POUNDHumanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
EZRA POUNDNothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
EZRA POUNDLearn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
EZRA POUNDWhat matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
EZRA POUNDRhythm must have meaning.
EZRA POUNDA classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
EZRA POUNDIf a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
EZRA POUNDWars are made to make debt.
EZRA POUNDI would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
EZRA POUNDWhen words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
EZRA POUNDThe natural object is always the adequate symbol.
EZRA POUNDIf a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
EZRA POUNDCome, 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.
EZRA POUNDThe temple is holy because it is not for sale.
EZRA POUNDWars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
EZRA POUNDThe 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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