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Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty. ↗

— Dennis Potter

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Sometimes I'm at home and I remember I'm supposed to do 100 push-ups and I don't. ↗

— Asafa Powell

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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

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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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All great art is born of the metropolis. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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