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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.»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
| About:
Humanity
| Keywords:
effluvium, manure
«A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.»
«If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.»
«I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.»
«A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.»
«A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.»
«If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
| Keywords:
atrophied, atrophies, atrophy, decays, declines
«With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.»
«All great art is born of the metropolis.»
«As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
| Keywords:
bathtub, chivalrous, cooling, hot line, hot water, In Hot Water, porcelain, tepid, white line
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