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Ezra Pound Quotes

Ezra Pound quotes about poetry

American Poet October 30, 1885 – November 1, 1972

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Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human emotions. If one has a mind which inclines to magic rather than science, one will prefer to speak of these equations as spells or incantations; it sounds more arcane, mysterious, recondite. Ezra Pound
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
Ezra Pound quote: "Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the..."
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound quote: "Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy..."
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. Ezra Pound

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