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Ezra Pound
(1885 - 1972 / Hailey / Idaho)
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80 poems of Ezra Pound
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''I make a pact with you, Walt Whitman—
I have detested you long enough.''
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Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet. A Pact (l. 1-2). . .
The Selected Poems of Ezra Pound. (1957) New Directions.
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''You let me throw the bricks through the front window. You go in at the back and take the swag.''
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Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet, critic. quoted in Humphrey Carpenter, A Serious Character, pt. 2, ch. 13 (1988).
Remark to poet T.S. Eliot, rep...
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''As white their bark, so white this lady's hours.''
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Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet. A Virginal (l. 14). . .
The Selected Poems of Ezra Pound. (1957) New Directions.
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''There once was a brainy baboon
Who always breathed down a bassoon,
For he said, "It appears
That in billions of years
I shall certainly hit on a tune."''
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Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet, critic. Letter, July 21, 1949, to Huntingdon Cairns of the National Gallery of Art in Washington. quoted in Humphre...
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''Slight are her arms, yet they have bound me straitly
And left me cloaked as with a gauze of ther;
As with sweet leaves; as with subtle clearness.''
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Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet. A Virginal (l. 4-6). . .
The Selected Poems of Ezra Pound. (1957) New Directions.
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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry.... If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take te...
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Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet, critic. Letter, 1909, to his mother. quoted in Humphrey Carpenter, A Serious Character, pt. 2, ch. 3 (1988).
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''No, no! Go from me. I have still the flavour,
Soft as spring wind that's come from birchen bowers.''
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Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet. A Virginal (l. 9-10). . .
The Selected Poems of Ezra Pound. (1957) New Directions.
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''I have always thought the suicide shd/ bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.''
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Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet, critic. letter, Sept. 10, 1956, to poet Archibald MacLeish. quoted in Humphrey Carpenter, A Serious Character, pt. ...
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''Oh we drunk his "Hale" in the good red wine
When we last made company,
No capon priest was the Goodly Fere
But a man o' men was he.''
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Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet. Ballad of the Goodly Fere (l. 13-16). . .
The Selected Poems of Ezra Pound. (1957) New Directions.
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''A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.''
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Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet, critic. letter, Feb. 4, 1918, to the painter J.B. Yeats (father of W.B. Yeats). quoted in Humphrey Carpenter, A Ser...
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