Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

Ezra Pound
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  1. Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something. - Rainbow Rowell

  2. It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done. - Vincent Van Gogh

  3. Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep. - Clive Barker

  4. Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. - Chuck Klosterman

  5. There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. - Vincent Van Gogh

More Quotes By Ezra Pound
  1. Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.

  2. It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

  3. The Garden En robe de parade. - SamainLike a skein of loose silk blown against a wall She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens, And she is dying piece-mealof a sort of emotional anaemia. And round about there is a rabble...

  4. L'artGreen arsenic smeared on an egg-white cloth, Crushed strawberries! Come, let us feast our eyes.

  5. And round about there is a rabble Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor. They shall inherit the earth.

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