Ezra Pound Quotes


See, they return; ah, see the tentative Movements, and the slow feet, The trouble in the pace and the uncertain Wavering! See, they return, one, and by one, With fear, as half-awakened; As if the snow should hesitate And murmur in the wind, and half turn back.


Citations

Pound, Ezra. "The Return." Ripostes of Ezra Pound. Stephen Swift and Co., 1912, p. 24.

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Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound
  • Born: October 30, 1885
  • Died: November 1, 1972
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Poet

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his 800-page epic poem, The Cantos (c. 1917–1962).