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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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The act of bellringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people. – Ezra Pound

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Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers. – Peter Davison

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Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. – John Keats

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Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. – Wallace Stevens

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Poetry is the energy of the soul made ink. – Terri Guillemets, “Lust & creativity,” 1995

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