#so

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

#grows #humanity #manure #rich #soil

Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#committed #had #i #latin #long

But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#one thing #only #should #something #suppose

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#entirely #even #glad #gloom #heart

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#definite #does #exactly #exist #function

Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#american #europe #i #i am #last

They are amazing kids so we let them make decisions but also have discipline. ↗

— Kelly Preston

#amazing #decisions #discipline #kids #make

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#death #feeling #just #out #sin

My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.' ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#her #how #i #lake #learned

I also like a great Caesar salad with anchovies, although I don't know why some places say 'with anchovies.' If you're making a proper Caesar salad, it's going to have anchovies. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#although #caesar #going #great #i