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Ezra Pound Quotes about Poetry

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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

Ezra Pound
Art, Poetry, Pigment
Ezra Pound, Harriet Zinnes (1980). “Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts”, p.152, New Directions Publishing

Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

Ezra Pound
Art, Poetry, Sound

In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.

Ezra Pound
Poetry, Elements, Likes

Poetry must be as well written as prose.

Ezra Pound
Poetry, Wells, Prose
Letter to Harriet Monroe, Jan. 1915

To break the pentameter, that was the first heave

Ezra Pound
Poetry, Firsts, Break
Ezra Pound (1996). “The Cantos of Ezra Pound”, p.538, New Directions Publishing

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