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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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If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practised, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point. – Ezra Pound

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

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That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said. – Robert Creeley

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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. – Emily Dickinson

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Ive written some poetry I dont understand myself. – Carl Sandburg

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