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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 (1885-1972), U.S. poet. Homage to Sextus Propertius. . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press. |
"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. |
"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. |
"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. |
"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. |
"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. |
"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. |
"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). |
"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). |
"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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