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• Poetry withers and dries out when it leaves music, or at least imagined music, too far behind it.
  Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets. -- Ezra Pound...
• Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.
  -- Ezra Pound...
• What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage Whose world, or mine or theirs or is it of none?
  First came the seen, then thus the palpable Elysium, though it were in the halls of Hell, What thou lovest well is thy true heritage....
• Women who insist upon having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type.
  -- Fran Lebowitz...
• Australia: Where men are men and sheep are nervous.
• MONTANA: Where men are men and women are sheep.
• Scotland-men are men, women are cold, and sheep are nervous.
• Americans are people who insist on living in the present, tense.