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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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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

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Scholars, Scholarship
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight. – Ezra Pound

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Change
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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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Fascism
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Poetry
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I can find some way to make poetry out of my lifes experiences. – Shelby Lynne

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Poetry

If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there – not because youve done a comedy performance but because youre talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul. – Roger McGough

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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for. – Jean Cocteau

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Poetry

There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry. – Gyorgy Ligeti

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Poetry

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