Quote by Ezra Pound

"The politician speaks to win votes; the poet speaks to win souls."

Ezra Pound
Poet Critic American 1885–1972

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"Make it new."
"The natural object is always the adequate symbol."
"Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics."
"A poet is a light and winged and holy thing."

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