Pound

Famous quotes containing the word pound:

    Thou art a beaten dog beneath the hail,
    A swollen magpie in a fitful sun,
    Half black half white
    Nor knowst’ou wing from tail
    Pull down thy vanity
    How mean thy hates
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    For three years, out of key with his time,
    He strove to resuscitatethe dead art
    Of poetry; to maintain “the sublime”
    In the old sense.
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    Tell her that goes
    With song upon her lips
    But sings not out the song, nor knows
    The maker of it, some other mouth,
    May be as fair as hers,
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)