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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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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. – Ezra Pound

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I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic — I mean my motion. – Ezra Pound

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I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesnt play, it has a poignancy to it. – Jim Jarmusch

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None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry. – Edith Hamilton

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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. – John Cage

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