Pound

Famous quotes containing the word pound:

“Haie! Haie!
These were the swift to harry;
These the keen-scented;
These were the souls of blood.
Slow on the leash,
pallid the leash-men!”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

“Hell grant soon we hear again the swords clash!
And the shrill neighs of destriers in battle rejoicing,
Spiked breast to spiked breast opposing!”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

“Pound’s crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don’t put a poet like Pound in the loony bin. For history’s sake we shouldn’t keep him there.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)