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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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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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The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. – Dylan Thomas

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For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts. – John Drinkwater

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Its not easy to define poetry. – Bob Dylan

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Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously. – Asghar Farhadi

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