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Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.
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Better mendacities
Than the classics in paraphrase!
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Pride, jealousy and possessiveness
3 pains of hell
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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All other sins are open,
Usura alone not understood.
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No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.
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With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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A little light, like a rushlight / to lead back to splendour.
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His true Penelope was Flaubert,
He fished by obstinate isles.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Without character you will
be unable to play on that instrument
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Hang it all, Robert Browning, there can be but the one "Sordello."
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America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation.
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If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Tching prayed on the mountain and
wrote make it new
on his bath tub.
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WOT IZZA COMIN'?
'I'll tell you wot izza comin'
Sochy-lism is a-comin''
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Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.
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"You damn sadist!" said mr. cummings,
"you try to make people think."
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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As a lone ant from a broken ant-hill
from the wreckage of Europe, ego scriptor.
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My worst mistake was the stupid suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism, all along.
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It is better to present one image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous work.
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A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that 'the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.'
Walter Bagehot
Ezra Pound
Born:
October 30, 1885
Died:
November 1, 1972
(aged 87)
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