No good poetry is
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
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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. Ezra Pound
In every art we are always obliged to return to the accepted means of expression, the conventional language of the art. What is a black-and-white drawing but a convention to which the beholder has become so accustomed that with his mind’s eye he sees a complete equivalent in the translation from nature? Eugene Delacroix
What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions. Eugene Delacroix
An ounce of convention is worth a pound of explanation. Ethel Mumford
My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I’ve encountered at gaming and comic book conventions. Ernest Cline
what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress? Erica Jong
I have an oddball sense of humor. So when there was an episode at a comic book convention-of course they end up having Lois dress up all sexy and stuff-but really what I would dress up like is a Stormtrooper. That’s what I’d do, because it’s hilarious, and who doesn’t want to be that at … Read more
I think they clearly do not fit within the prescriptions of the Geneva Convention. It’s hard for me to see how members of al Qaeda could be considered prisoners of war. Eric Holder
Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the conservatism, laziness and irrationality of men and women. Eric Gill
A military preparedness strategy with specifics yesterday and today rolls out a school of choice plan with monetary specifics. So [Donald Trump] has pivoted over the last, he had a very rough go after the conventions. Eric Bolling