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Ezra Pound

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

Ezra Pound

Poetry

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Ezra Pound suggests that music loses its vitality if it moves away from its connection to rhythm and movement, like dance. Similarly, poetry weakens when it strays too far from the musical qualities of sound and rhythm that give it life.

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