Pound

Famous quotes containing the word pound:

“Oh you brown bacon machine,
how sweet you lie,
gaining a pound and a half a day,
you rolled-up pair of socks,
you dog’s nightmare....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)

“All things are a flowing,
Sage Heracleitus says;
But a tawdry cheapness
Shall outlast our days.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)