Quote by Ezra Pound
Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies w

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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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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Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art. – Ezra Pound

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These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words. – Felix Mendelssohn

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I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because theyre both subcorporate music – I mean, traditionally. – Ani DiFranco

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Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. Thats what critics cant put their finger on. – Billy Corgan

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There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. – G.K. Chesterton

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May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us? – W. H. Auden

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