Ezra Pound Quotes - Page 9

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• Sumer is icumen in,
  Lhude sing cucc.
  Groweth sed, and bloweth med,
  And springth the wude nu,
  Sing cuccu!

  Ezra Pound

  Summer, July, Meds

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• The Garden En robe de parade. - Samain Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens, And she is dying piece-meal of a sort of emotional anaemia. And round about there is a rabble Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor. They shall inherit the earth. In her is the end of breeding. Her boredom is exquisite and excessive. She would like some one to speak to her, And is almost afraid that I will commit that indiscretion.

  Ezra Pound

  Wall, Emotional, Garden

  'The Garden' (1916)

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• Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Men, Study

  Ezra Pound, Michael Dirda (2010). “ABC of Reading”, p.2, New Directions Publishing

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• 'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

  Ezra Pound

  Hunting, White, World

  Ezra Pound, Lea Baechler, A. Walton Litz (1990). “Personae: The Shorter Poems of Ezra Pound”, p.24, New Directions Publishing

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• Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.

  Ezra Pound

  Learning, Artist, Race

  'Literary Essays' (1954)'Henry James'

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• Yet the companions of the Muses
  will keep their collective nose in my books
  And weary with historical data, they will turn to my dance tune.

  Ezra Pound

  Book, Data, Historical

  Ezra Pound, Richard Sieburth (2010). “New Selected Poems and Translations”, p.92, New Directions Publishing

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• And in the mean time my songs will travel,
  And the devirginated young ladies will enjoy them
  when they have got over the strangeness

  Ezra Pound

  Song, Sex, Mean

  Ezra Pound, Richard Sieburth (2010). “New Selected Poems and Translations”, p.92, New Directions Publishing

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• I ask a wreathwhich will not crush my head.
  And there is no hurry about it;
  I shall have, doubtless, a boom after my funeral,
  Seeing that long standing increases all things
  regardless of quality.

  Ezra Pound

  Crush, Death, Long

  Ezra Pound (2015). “Delphi Poetical Works of Ezra Pound (Illustrated)”, p.588, Delphi Classics

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• Quiet this metal! Let the manes put off their terror, let them put off their aqueous bodies with fire. Let them assume the milk-white bodies of agate. Let them draw together the bones of the metal.

  Ezra Pound

  Fire, White, Together

  Ezra Pound, Michael John King (1982). “Collected Early Poems of Ezra Pound”, p.226, New Directions Publishing

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• Song in the Manner of Housman" O woe, woe, People are born and die, We also shall be dead pretty soon Therefore let us act as if we were dead already. The bird sits on the hawthorn tree But he dies also, presently. Some lads get hung, and some get shot. Woeful is this human lot. Woe! woe, etcetera.... London is a woeful place, Shropshire is much pleasanter. Then let us smile a little space Upon fond nature's morbid grace. Oh, Woe, woe, woe, etcetera.

  Ezra Pound

  Song, Space, People

  'Mr Housman's Message' (1911)

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• I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

  Ezra Pound

  Trust, Gentleman, Training

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• As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, When the hot water gives out or goes tepid, So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, O my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

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  Passion, White, Giving

  Ezra Pound (1990). “Personae: The Shorter Poems (Revised Edition)”, p.101, New Directions Publishing

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• You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average mind- with one thought less, each year.

  Ezra Pound

  Men, Average, Years

  Ezra Pound (2016). “Early Poems”, p.30, Courier Dover Publications

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• Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.

  Ezra Pound

  Technique, Tests, Sincerity

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• The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace.

  Ezra Pound

  Grace, Age, Modern

  Hugh Selwyn Mauberley "E. P. Ode Pour l'Election de Son Sepulchre" l. 21 (1920)

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• I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic -- I mean my motion.

  Ezra Pound

  Mean, Years, America

  Ezra Pound (1950). “The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941”, p.346, New Directions Publishing

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