Pound

Famous quotes containing the word pound:

“To have gathered from the air a live tradition
or from a fine old eye the unconquered flame
This is not vanity.
Here error is all in the not done,
all in the diffidence that faltered . . .”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

“he had been born
In a half savage country, out of date;
Bent resolutely on wringing lilies from the acorn;”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

“The apparition of these faces in the crowd;”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)