Ezra Pound Quotes
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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I really don't have anything urgent to say, and I think you shouldn't write unless you have something urgent to say. Sometimes that troubles me, and sometimes I don't really care.
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I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.
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I just write mechanical things.
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I don't think of myself as Scottish or lesbian when I sit down and write. I am glad I have broken out of that limited audience.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
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I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.
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On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.
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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
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He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.
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I enjoy listening to contemporary rock on the college stations while I'm taking long walks, love gospel and soul music, am fascinated by hip-hop and rap as the new kind of urban 'beat' poetry and, come to think of it, find something interesting about just any kind of music.
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.
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I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.
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I'm a cliche.
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.
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Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.
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To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life.
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You cant please all the people all the time.
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No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
