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Quote by Ezra Pound
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barbers wax dummy is t

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barbers wax dummy is to sculpture. – Ezra Pound

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Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. – Ezra Pound

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Men
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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it. – Ezra Pound

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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy. – Ezra Pound

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The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man cant touch. – E. M. Forster

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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. – Carl Sandburg

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I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. Its hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do. – David Antin

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The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry. – Robert Morgan

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If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk. – Raymond Inmon

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One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn – Lucille Ball

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Perseverance is not a long race it is many short races one after the other. – Walter Elliot

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You know, when I was a kid waiting on the bus, I remember that was when I imagined my life. I imagined everything that I was gonna be when I grew up and I imagined all of these amazing journeys and amazing people Id meet. Of course, all of it has kind of come to fruition. – Glen Hansard

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