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Most social evils are at root
economic.
I would sing the
American people,
God send them some
civilization.
I would turn from superficial
things for a
time into quite.
I
would draw your minds to
learn of life in quite.
Certain
things really do matter:
Love, and the comfort of
friendship.
After we are
burnt
clear, or even deadened with
knowledge;
After we have gone the
whole gamut, exhausted
our human
emotions,
Still is there some
thing greater, some
power, some recognition,
Some bond
beyond the ordinary bonds of passion and
sentiment
That rewards
us for foregoing
blindness.
There is
great virtue in strength, even in passive
resistance.
God grant
us an open mind and the poise and
balance to use it.
I sing of
the senses
developed, I
reach towards perceptions
scarce heeded.
If you ask me to write
world prescriptions I
write so that any can
read it:
I am that terrible thing the
product of American culture
Or rather that
product improved by considerable care and
attention.
Write it thus: by their
gods ye shall know them.
The chief
god in hell is
convention
got by that sturdy sire stupidity.
Upon pale
fear, in some most proper
way
Where
humans
worship a sham
There is
hardly room for the devil.
There is more in
heaven and Earth than the
priest and the
scientists think.
0 woe, woe,
People are born and die,
We also shall be dead pretty soon ,
Therefore let us
act as if
we were dead already.
I have hidden
my face where the oak
spread his leaves
over me, and the yoke
of the old ways of men have I cast aside.
Drink all of life
and quaffing lustily
Take bitter with the sweet
without complaint
And
sharers in his drink defy the pain
That makes you
fearful to unfurl your
souls.
Worthy to reap men's praises
Is he who'd gaze upon
Truth's mazes.
God hath put me
here
In Earth's goodly sphere
To
sing the
joy of the
day,
A strong
glad song,
To my fellows along the
way.
See, and the
very sense of what we
know
Dodges and hides as in a
sombre curtain.
Bright threads leap forth, and hide, and
leave no pattern.
I am homesick after mine own
category,
Oh
I know that there are
folk about me, friendly
Yet ordinary people
touch me not.
Yea,
I am homesick
After mine own
category that
know, and
feel
And have some breath for
beauty and the arts.
I will
sing of the white birds
In the blue waters of
heaven,
The
clouds that are spray to its
sea.
You, who have loved not what I was or will
be,
You who but
loved me for a
thing I could
be,
How could I
give you what I am or will be?
I am he that paints a
rainbow of the sunset.
As a fragile and lovely flower
unfolds
its gleaming foliage
on the breast of the fostering
Earth,
if the
dew and the rain draw it forth;
So doth my tender
mind flourish,
if it be fed with the
sweet dew of the fostering spirit,
Lacking this, it beginneth straightway to languish,
even as a
flower born upon dry earth,
if the
dew and the rain tend it not.
He that is
Lord of all the realms of light
Hath unto me
from His magnificence
Granted such
vision as hath wrought my
joy.
Moving my spirit past the
last defense
That shields mortal things from mightier
sight.
Ezra Pound, American
poet
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was
born in Hailey, Idaho, in 1885 and raised a Quaker. He married Dorothy
Shakespear in 1914. In 1924, he moved to Italy and became involved in
fascist politics. When the
Americans captured Italy Ezra Pound spent
twenty-five days in an open cage during
which he suffered a mental breakdown. Upon his repatriation to the
America in 1945, Ezra Pound was charged
with treason for
broadcasting
fascist propaganda by radio to America during
World War II.
In 1946, Ezra
Pound was acquitted of treason, but
declared insane and committed to St. Elizabeth's
Hospital in Washington, D.C. After continuous appeals from writers, including
Robert Frost, Ezra Pound won his release from the
hospital in 1958. Ezra Pound returned to Italy and settled in Venice, where he
died, a semi-recluse, in 1972.
As critic,
editor and promoter, Ezra Pound helped the careers of T.S. Eliot, James Joyce,
Robert Frost, Ernest
Hemingway, and D. H.
Lawrence.
Gnosis, an
esoteric form of knowledge that made
possible the direct awareness
of the Divine, was one of Ezra Pound's major
interests.
Robert Lee
Frost, Henry Wadsworth
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