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Quote by Ezra Pound
And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not fa

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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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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AS A MIND, who the hell else is there left for me to take an interest IN?? – Ezra Pound

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[P]oetry shares our misery, it is agitated with all our uneasiness; like us, it goes, comes, flies, never rests. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they cant understand it or that it will be boring. – Caroline Kennedy

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When you translate poetry in particular, youre obliged to look at how the writer with whom youre working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence. – Marilyn Hacker

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What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man. – Stephen Greenblatt

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–>How can we know the dancer from the dance? – William Butler Yeats

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In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. – Mark Twain

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The choice so often these days is to believe something that seems insane or go insane. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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As you reach for understanding, you find that your ladder of facts isn’t long enough, and you try to extend it by adding a rung of faith. Eventually you see that the task is hopeless, and you put away your ladder of facts and go get a ladder of faith. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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