Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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About Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound was a 19th-century American poet and critic. Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the Salò Republic during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and The Cantos. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Music — The universal language of melody, rhythm, and harmony