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Artists are the antennae of the race.
Ezra Pound
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Ezra Pound
Age: 87 †
Born: 1885
Born: October 30
Died: 1972
Died: November 1
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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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As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's nothing in it.
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I think an alliance with Stalin's Russia is rotten.
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