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 real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people. – Ezra Pound

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War
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The act of bellringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people. – Ezra Pound

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Religion
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And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there… Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. – Ezra Pound

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Life is like music it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. – Samuel Butler

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Ive seen country music go uptown, like we say, and Im proud I was there when it happened. – Loretta Lynn

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Music was important. Football was the easy part. – Zinedine Zidane

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A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens… if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly… to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it? – Charles Ives

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