| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| 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). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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