“The top eleven are, in order, T. S. Eliot’s “Prufrock,” Robert Lowell’s “Skunk Hour,” Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Every poet gets to choose what kind of community he or she serves with the poems, and it's true that there is… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
Take Ezra Pound's translations of poetry from Chinese. He doesn't really know Chinese, and the very strange results that he comes up… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
[On Ezra Pound:] A village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Some of my pictures are poem-like in the sense that they are very condensed, haiku-lik. There are others that, if they were… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
Ezra Pound was a pioneer of the most exciting aesthetic movement of the 20th century. — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
“Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work. --Ezra Pound” — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“Eliot's understanding of poetic epistemology is a version of Bradley's theory, outlined in our second chapter, that knowing involves immediate, relational, and… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
Someone — Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? — once said that anything that can be read twice is literature; I would say that… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
“Hardy’s astonishing technical versatility has won the admiration of major poets from Ezra Pound and Cecil Day Lewis to Philip Larkin. Among… — Geoffrey Harvey Copy Share Image
When students are first at the Kerouac School we harp on Gertrude Stein's very basic poetic insistence that words are things .… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I feel the most natural thing is for music to come that way because it's sort of like poetry. Though I do… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I unlearned the model of being an editor like Ezra Pound with T.S. Eliot, the unconscious belief that America was the center… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
T.S. Eliot's influence was enormous on my generation. Much more than Ezra Pound. I actually had to put T.S. Eliot books out… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody's shouting "Which Side Are You On?" And Ezra Pound and… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
It's difficult not to color our perception of author's product with his personality. There are so many examples of this. What do… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'll say that this is probably the best time for poetry since the T'ang dynasty. All the rest of the world is… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
Ezra Pound still lives in a village and his world is a kindof village and people keep explaining things when they live… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
End rhymes are not enough. Every word-sound in a poem should find an echo in another, neighbouring word's sound to achieve what… — Anne Stevens Copy Share Image
“Love thou thy dream All base love scorning, Love thou the wind And here take warning That dreams alone can truly be,… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
One of the things that was really influential early on was Ezra Pound's Cantos, one poem he worked on for 50 years.… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
Varese, Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, Leger, Gleizes, Severini, Villon, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Marie Laurencin, Cocteau and many others were to me household names in… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I was well read and knew languages, but I didn't want to become Ezra Pound. I wanted to write poetry that people… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
Ezra Pound still lives in a village and his world is a kind of village and people keep explaining things when they… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The puzzle and conundrums of Emily Dickinson's poetry or The Cantos, by Ezra Pound, is infinitely pleasurable. Or Ronald Johnson's Ark. And… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
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