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)

“As white their bark, so white this lady’s hours.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

“There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle “promise” from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)