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
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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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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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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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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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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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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Either move or be moved.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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