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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

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
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
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 modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Artist Craft Interest Live Modern Violence
Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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Ability Art Genius Himself Man Material Ordinary Perception Talent
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
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 curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
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
Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Blame Hero Himself Religion Stand Wisdom

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