Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music. – Ezra Pound
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barbers wax dummy is to sculpture. – Ezra Pound

Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music. – Ezra Pound
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barbers wax dummy is to sculpture. – 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
I could I trust starve like a gentleman. Its listed as part of the poetic training, you know. – Ezra Pound