"Poetry must be as well written as prose." — Ezra Pound
"Poetry must be as well written as prose."
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174 Quotes by Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound has 174 quotes on this site.
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The real meditation is ... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voilà une chose!! You try it. You try finding…
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If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.
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The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one…
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Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control…
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All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew…
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with…
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because…
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then…
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More Poetry Quotes
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
— Aristotle
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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature…
— Aristotle
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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just…
— Paul Auster
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I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until…
— Paul Auster
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I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary…
— Paul Auster
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If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the…
— M H Abrams
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
— Matthew Arnold
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I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
— John Ashbery
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But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed…
— Chinua Achebe
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think…
— Margaret Atwood
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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