"The rustling of the silk is discontinued, Dust……" — Ezra Pound
"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."
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174 Quotes by Ezra Pound
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The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.
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All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew…
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with…
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because…
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