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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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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barbers wax dummy is to sculpture. – Ezra Pound

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I could I trust starve like a gentleman. Its listed as part of the poetic training, you know. – Ezra Pound

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