Pound Coin

Famous quotes containing the words pound and/or coin:

    For three years, out of key with his time,
    He strove to resuscitatethe dead art
    Of poetry; to maintain “the sublime”
    In the old sense.
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    The oft-repeated Roman story is written in still legible characters in every quarter of the Old World, and but today, perchance, a new coin is dug up whose inscription repeats and confirms their fame. Some “Judæa Capta,” with a woman mourning under a palm tree, with silent argument and demonstration confirms the pages of history.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)