By Ezra Pound
Date: 5 June 2000
"Poetry is . . ."
All the well-made passionless,
wooden little poems one sees
everywhere nowadays,
panting like tongues in the
books and magazines. But
poetry is not a tongue. Poetry
is the dark beast with its
mouth open, and you've got to
walk down that tongue and
into the windy mouth. And
you've got to sing while you
walk.
~ Ezra Pound
1885-1972
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