No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.
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The rustling of the silk is discontinued, Dust drifts over the courtyard, There is not sound of footfall, and the leaves Scurry into heaps and lie still, And she the rejoicer of the heart is beneath them A wet leaf that clings to the threshold.Ezra Pound
The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or made grace, Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down. Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry, Pull down thy vanity, Paquin pull down The green casque has outdone your elegance.
Ezra Pound
For three years, out of key with his time, He strove to resuscitate the dead art Of poetry to maintain 'the sublime' In the old sense. Wrong from the start No, hardly, but seeing he had been born In a half savage country, out of date.
Ezra Pound
When I carefully consider the curious habits of dogs I am compelled to conclude That man is the superior animal. When I consider the curious habits of man I confess, my friend, I am puzzled.
Ezra Pound
Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
Ezra Pound
People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
Ezra Pound
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