Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
Ezra Pound
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I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation. -
The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself. -
Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence. -
I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won't touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don't have time, because I'd rather be doing other things, like knitting. -
Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.
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