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"The critic who doesn't make out a case is only an intelligent reader for himself; he is not a critic"

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MORE QUOTES BY Ezra Pound

“Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy...”

Ezra Pound

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“The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.”

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