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 think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.
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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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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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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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I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.
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Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great to be borne until it is ordered into words. And then it is written to be shared.
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No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.
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I know when I go to a poetry reading, I feel purged, exulted. You let the poet guide you through some kind of journey.
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Granted, I'm someone who loves words. I've always loved poetry - so it's suited to me.
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Prose talks and poetry sings.
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Now write this: 'The greatest rapture of my life was afforded me on a boat in Nassau by Fatima Blush,' and sign it 'James Bond, 007.'
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My paternal grandfather, Abraham Lincoln, emigrated from Rockingham County, Virginia, to Kentucky about 1781 or 1782, where a year or two later he was killed by the Indians, not in battle, but by stealth, when he was laboring to open a farm in the forest. His ancestors, who were Quakers, went to Virginia from Berks County, Pennsylvania.
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At home, I have lot of pictures from 'The Walking Dead' and some stuff from comic books. At comic conventions, people will give me a lot of autographed stuff, so a lot of those are on my wall.
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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.
