Ezra Pound Quotes About Death

Quotes about: Death

• There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.

  Ezra Pound

  Death, Men, Promise

  Ezra Pound (1970). “A Memoir of Gaudier-Brzeska”, p.118, New Directions Publishing

• The rustling of the silk is discontinued, Dust drifts over the courtyard, There is not sound of footfall, and the leaves Scurry into heaps and lie still, And she the rejoicer of the heart is beneath them: A wet leaf that clings to the threshold.

  Ezra Pound

  Death, Lying, Heart

  Ezra Pound (2015). “Delphi Poetical Works of Ezra Pound (Illustrated)”, p.468, Delphi Classics

• I ask a wreathwhich will not crush my head.
  And there is no hurry about it;
  I shall have, doubtless, a boom after my funeral,
  Seeing that long standing increases all things
  regardless of quality.

  Ezra Pound

  Crush, Death, Long

  Ezra Pound (2015). “Delphi Poetical Works of Ezra Pound (Illustrated)”, p.588, Delphi Classics

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