Ezra Pound/italy 1958%e2%80%9372

Famous quotes containing the words ezra pound, pound and/or italy:

    Artists broken against her,
    Astray, lost in the villages,
    Mistrusted, spoken against,
    Lovers of beauty, starved,
    Thwarted with systems,
    Helpless against the control;
    Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    As a bathtub lined with white porcelain,
    When the hot water gives out or goes tepid,
    So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion,
    O my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery—back, back down the old ways of time. Strange and wonderful chords awake in us, and vibrate again after many hundreds of years of complete forgetfulness.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)