331 Quotes by Ezra Pound

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    Aries greatly altered I have seen the ruined dorata.

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    You were gone up as a rocket, bending your passages from right to left and from left to right. In the flat projection of a spiral.

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    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.

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    Great Zeus, save the woman, or she will sit before your feet in a veil, and tell out the long list of her troubles.

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    The milk-white girls / Unbend from the holly-trees, / And their snow-white leopard / Watches to follow our trace.

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    Died some, pro patria, / non ‘dulce’ non ‘et decor’… / walked eye-deep in hell / believing in old men's lies, the unbelieving / came home, home to a lie

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