Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

人类是丰富的排泄物，它是废物、肥料和土壤，而艺术之树正是从它那里生长出来的。

-- Ezra Pound 以斯拉镑