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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
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Cancer Life World
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Build Money Pursue State
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
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
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
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
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
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand

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