Ezra Pound Quotes About Grace

Quotes about: Grace

• The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or made grace, Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down. Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry, Pull down thy vanity, Paquin pull down! The green casque has outdone your elegance.

  Ezra Pound

  Courage, Learning, Men

  Cantos no. 81, l. 148 (1948)

• The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace.

  Ezra Pound

  Grace, Age, Modern

  Hugh Selwyn Mauberley "E. P. Ode Pour l'Election de Son Sepulchre" l. 21 (1920)

• Song in the Manner of Housman" O woe, woe, People are born and die, We also shall be dead pretty soon Therefore let us act as if we were dead already. The bird sits on the hawthorn tree But he dies also, presently. Some lads get hung, and some get shot. Woeful is this human lot. Woe! woe, etcetera.... London is a woeful place, Shropshire is much pleasanter. Then let us smile a little space Upon fond nature's morbid grace. Oh, Woe, woe, woe, etcetera.

  Ezra Pound

  Song, Space, People

  'Mr Housman's Message' (1911)

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