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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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AS A MIND, who the hell else is there left for me to take an interest IN?? – Ezra Pound

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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance… poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. – Ezra Pound

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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. – Ezra Pound

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Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world. – Archibald MacLeish

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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. – John Updike

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We simply have not kept in touch with poetry. – Paul Muldoon

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Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready. – Eugenio Montale

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