• No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.

  Ezra Pound
  American poet 1885-1972
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1. conclusively
2. convention
3. twenty
4. writer
5. thinks
6. cliché

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No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life. by : Ezra Pound

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