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''"You the one, I the few"
said John Adams
speaking of fears in the abstract
to his volatile friend Mr. Jefferson,''
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Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet. Canto LXXXI (l. 49-52). . .
The Cantos of Ezra Pound. (1970, repr. 1991) New Directions.
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''Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.''
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Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet, critic. The ABC of Reading, ch. 3 (1934).
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''Yet
Ere the season died a-cold
Borne upon a zephyr's shoulder
Irose through the aureate sky''
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Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet. Canto LXXXI (l. 94-97). . .
The Cantos of Ezra Pound. (1970, repr. 1991) New Directions.
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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 ...
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Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet, critic. repr. In Collected Shorter Poems (1984). The Bath Tub, Lustra (1916).
The poem is thought to be address...
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''What counts is the cultural level,''
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Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet. Canto LXXXI (l. 64). . .
The Cantos of Ezra Pound. (1970, repr. 1991) New Directions.
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''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 piecemeal
of a sort of emotional anemia.''
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Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet. The Garden (l. 1-4). . .
The Selected Poems of Ezra Pound. (1957) New Directions.
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''What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee
What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage
Whose world, or mine or theirs
or is it of none?''
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Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet. Canto LXXXI (l. 133-136). . .
The Cantos of Ezra Pound. (1970, repr. 1991) New Directions.
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''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.''
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Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet. The Garden (l. 8-12). . .
The Selected Poems of Ezra Pound. (1957) New Directions.
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It hath brought palsey to bed, lyeth
between the young bride and her bridegroom
CO-TRA NATURA—
They have brought whores for Eleusis
Corpses are set to banquet
at behest o...
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Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet. Canto XLV (l. 44-49). . .
The Cantos of Ezra Pound. (1970, repr. 1991) New Directions.
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''install me in any profession
Save this damn'd profession of writing,
where one needs one's brains all the time.''
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Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet. The Lake Isle (l. 14-16). . .
The Selected Poems of Ezra Pound. (1957) New Directions.
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