“Also you are a fool to seek the kind of art you don't like. You are a fool to read classics because you are told to and not because you like them. You are a fool to aspire to good taste if you haven't naturally got it. If there is one place where it is idiotic to sham it is before a work of art.”
“[In her is the end of breeding.
Her boredom is exquisite and excessive.]
She would like some one to speak to her,
And she is almost afraid that I
will commit that indiscretion”
“I who have seen you amid the primal things
Was angry when they spoke your name
In ordinary places.”
-Ezra Pound, from "Francesca”
—
“He dreamed,
And having dreamed that he was a bird, a bee,
and a butterfly,
He was uncertain why he should try to feel like,
anything else,
Hence his contentment.
”
“I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.” -Li Po, “The River-Merchant’s Wife” (Translated by Ezra Pound so freely that some consider it to be written by Pound himself.)
