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Poetry must be as well written as prose.

Ezra Pound

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Ezra Pound
Age: 87 †
Born: 1885
Born: October 30
Died: 1972
Died: November 1
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Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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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.
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The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or made grace, Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down. Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry, Pull down thy vanity, Paquin pull down! The green casque has outdone your elegance.
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