"Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber’s wax dummy is to sculpture." ― Ezra Pound Topic(s): Poetry More From Ezra Pound "And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there… Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will." "Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand." "Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents." More In Poetry "Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance."― John Keats "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."― Percy Bysshe Shelley "Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they’re saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest."― Harry Mathews