Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it. – Ezra Pound
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance. – Ezra Pound
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it. – Ezra Pound
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance. – Ezra Pound
Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music. – Ezra Pound
I could I trust starve like a gentleman. Its listed as part of the poetic training, you know. – Ezra Pound
Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and think more they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems. – Thomas Babington Macaulay