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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

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
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Education Insist Limit Reality
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Care Concept Genius Inferior Madness Public
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
A 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.
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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
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
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Complication Death Himself Man Organism
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
Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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Art Bound Convention Poetry Sound Symbol
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory

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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