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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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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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I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic — I mean my motion. – Ezra Pound

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