The real meditation is ... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voilà une chose!! You try it. You try finding out why you're you and not somebody else. And who in the blazes are you anyhow? Ah, voilà une chose! Ezra Pound More Quotes by Ezra Pound More Quotes From Ezra Pound That text is known to them that have the patience to read it, possibly one one-hundredth of one percent of the denizens. They forget it, all save a few Western states. I think somebody in Dakota once read it. The Constitution. Ezra Pound constitution apathy thinking The man who fears war and squats opposing Ezra Pound fear men war And in the mean time my songs will travel, Ezra Pound song mean sex I ask a wreathwhich will not crush my head. Ezra Pound crush long death I have tried to write Paradise Do not move Let the wind speak that is paradise. Let the Gods forgive what I have made Let those I love try to forgive what I have made. Ezra Pound writing wind moving The Garden En robe de parade. - Samain Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens, And she is dying piece-meal of a sort of emotional anaemia. And round about there is a rabble Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor. They shall inherit the earth. In her is the end of breeding. Her boredom is exquisite and excessive. She would like some one to speak to her, And is almost afraid that I will commit that indiscretion. Ezra Pound wall emotional garden Go to the adolescent who are smothered in family-- Ezra Pound house tree fall I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know. Ezra Pound training trust gentleman Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome. Ezra Pound phrases musical writing Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man. Ezra Pound study men art No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job. Ezra Pound truth jobs men 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. Ezra Pound fear feet wind Sumer is icumen in, Ezra Pound meds july summer The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace. Ezra Pound modern grace age The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Ezra Pound dragons ants world A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him. Ezra Pound There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune. Ezra Pound If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates. Ezra Pound building money world art