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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

Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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History International Politics Yourself
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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Device Emotion Energy Familiar Oneself Pattern Represent Rhyme
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
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
The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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Artist Category Herself Nature Paragraph Serious
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Advertisement Science Soap Way
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself

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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