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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 Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy. – Ezra Pound

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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week. – Ezra Pound

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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. – Oscar Wilde

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Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race. – Johann Georg Hamann

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Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind. – J. Courtney Sullivan

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