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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

The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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Finding Greatness Magic Master Mindset Romanticism Science
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Accurate Clear Goodness Language Writing
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
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Artist Green Invention Learning Place True World
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Body Chemicals Death Limitation Moments Necessary
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Addiction Appetite Discover Fact
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
The 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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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
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
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner

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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