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NUMBER:45148
QUOTATION:Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
ATTRIBUTION:Ezra Pound (1885–1972), U.S. poet, critic. “I Gather the Limbs of Osiris,” pt. 1, Selected Prose 1909-1965, ed. William Cookson (1973).
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