Ezra Pound about Poetry : Colloquial poetry is to the real art as

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

- Ezra Pound

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

- Ezra Pound

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