(30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972 / Hailey / Idaho)

poet Ezra Pound
#31 on top 500 poets

Quotations

  • ''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 (1885-1972), U.S. poet. Homage to Sextus Propertius. . . Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.
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  • ''Celebrities from the Trans-Caucasus will belaud Roman celebrities
    And expound the distentions of Empire,
    But for something to read in normal circumstances?''
    Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet. Homage to Sextus Propertius. . . Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.
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  • ''Flame burns, rain sinks into the cracks
    And they all go to rack ruin beneath the thud of the years,
    Stands genius a deathless adornment,
    a name not to be worn out with the years.''
    Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet. Homage to Sextus Propertius. . . Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.
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  • ''There will be a crowd of young women doing homage to my palaver,''
    Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet. Homage to Sextus Propertius. . . Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.
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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 (1885-1972), U.S. poet. Homage to Sextus Propertius. . . Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.
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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 (1885-1972), U.S. poet. Homage to Sextus Propertius. . . Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.
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  • ''Out-weariers of Apollo will, as we know, continue their
    Martian generalities,
    We have kept our erasers in order.''
    Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet. Homage to Sextus Propertius. . . Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.
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  • ''Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.''
    Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet, critic. How to Read, pt. 2 (1931).
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  • ''There died a myriad,
    And of the best, among them,
    For an old bitch gone in the teeth,
    For a botched civilization.''
    Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet, critic. Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, "E.P. Ode Pour l'Election de Son Sépulchre", pt. 5 (1920).
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  • ''His true Penelope was Flaubert,''
    Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet. Hugh Selwyn Mauberley. (Life and Contacts) (l. 15). . . The Selected Poems of Ezra Pound. (1957) New Directions.
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Taking Leave of a Friend

Blue mountains to the north of the walls,
White river winding about them;
Here we must make separation
And go out through a thousand miles of dead grass.

Mind like a floating wide cloud,
Sunset like the parting of old acquaintances
Who bow over their clasped hands at a distance.
Our horses neigh to each others

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