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

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I could I trust starve like a gentleman. Its listed as part of the poetic training, you know. – Ezra Pound

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A poem begins with a lump in the throat. – Robert Frost

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I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity. – James Dickey

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You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. – Mario Cuomo

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Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is. – James Broughton

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