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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

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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Himself Hope Man Measurement Nation Time
If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
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
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Debt Implement Loan Modern Old Slave Time War
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Artist Creation Himself Work
And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Day Enough Night Shake
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion
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
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
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround

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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