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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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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Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music. – Ezra Pound

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Music
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When youre looking that far out, youre giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesnt need translation. Its like poetry, it touches you. – Story Musgrave

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Poetry

The mystical poetry of William Blakes artwork also forms the basis for the album cover. – Bruce Dickinson

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Poetry

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. – William Wordsworth

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Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos. – David Lee Roth

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Poetry

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At home Ive got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour. – Thom Yorke

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If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, its my dad, but he did not feel that way at all. – Larry Elder

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Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty. – Dodie Smith

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We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before. – James Truslow Adams

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