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.
Ezra Pound
Quotes to Explore
I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.
Bebe Rexha
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.
Joanne Rowling
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.
T. S. Eliot
I don't write books inadvertently.
A. N. Wilson
He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.
Harold MacMillan
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.
Oscar Hijuelos
People who publish poetry today do it from a sense that poetry needs to be published, not because they think they are going to make money.
Campbell McGrath
I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'
T. J. Miller
J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.
Coco Chanel
When you have decided to purchase a farm, be careful not to buy rashly; do not spare your visits and be not content with a single tour of inspection. The more you go, the more will the place please you, if it be worth your attention. Give heed to the appearance of the neighbourhood, - a flourishing country should show its prosperity. "When you go in, look about, so that, when needs be, you can find your way out.
Cato the Elder
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.
Ezra Pound
