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

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Age
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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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Music
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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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It all has to do with art – writing, painting, things Ive done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry – things that are designed for songs, but theyre always poems first. – Jason Newsted

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You know, bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet, and, you know, theres a Web log of our college newspaper. You know, theres so many different stages of my creative development are sort of on-record if somebody were to choose to look for them. – Lena Dunham

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I dont like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country. – Will Cuppy

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

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More will mean worse. – Martin Amis

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God gave the angels wings, and he gave humans chocolate. – Author Unknown

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Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so. – Franz Kafka

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Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young. – Sainte-Beuve, Portraits littéraires, 1862

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