Quote by Ezra Pound
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance...

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance… poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. – Ezra Pound

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I could I trust starve like a gentleman. Its listed as part of the poetic training, you know. – Ezra Pound

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Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music. – Ezra Pound

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Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. – Ezra Pound

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