Colloquial poetry is to
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber’s wax dummy is to sculpture. Ezra Pound
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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber’s wax dummy is to sculpture. Ezra Pound
I was trampled to death by a man who believed his luggage would be the first piece off. If he were an experienced traveler, he would know that the first piece of luggage belongs to no one. It’s just a dummy suitcase to give everyone hope. Erma Bombeck
Ignoring for a moment the power of the American Medical Association, we still wouldn’t see a huge amount of books on neurosurgery for dummies in 21 days or whatever. It’s just plain inappropriate, and it’s intentionally out of people’s reach. Erik Naggum
Would you buy a book proudly stating on the cover that its reader is a dummy? Or would you think of course it’s ironic? Erik Naggum
For some people, history is simply what your wife looks good standing in front of. It’s what’s cast in bronze, or framed in sepia tones, or acted out with wax dummies and period furniture. It takes place in glass bubbles filled with water and chunks of plastic snow; it’s stamped on souvenir pencils and summarized … Read more
Find her, blind her, see who designed her. Act like a dummy until you grind her. Frank Zappa
Just like every kid who comes into show business on some level, I used to put shows on in my basement. I even started with doing tricks and having a ventriloquist dummy. Don Scardino
That I walk around calling people ‘dummy’ and ‘hockey puck’. I do have a different life apart from being sarcastic on stage. I might kibitz around with my friends, but I’m nothing like the person who does stand up. Nothing like that. Don Rickles
Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones. Don Rickles
When there’s not ten feet of snow on the ground I ride my bike down the streets of New York, and I literally hear two things out of car windows as cabs pass by me: They either yell, Hey, dummy, or Hey, Mayhem. Dean Winters