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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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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people. – Ezra Pound

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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it. – Ezra Pound

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Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man. – Ezra Pound

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I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeares sonnets. – Diane Wakoski

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Its always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal. – Carol Ann Duffy

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I used to joke that if acting didnt work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback. – Merritt Wever

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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat. – Alfred Edward Housman

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