Andy passes through things, but so do we. He sat down and had a talk with me. "You gotta decide what you want to do. Do you want t...o keep just playing museums from now on and the art festivals? Or do you want to start moving into other areas? Lou, don't you think you should think about it?" So I thought about it, and I fired him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ezra Pound still lives in a village and his world is a kind of village and people keep explaining things when they live in a villa...ge.... I have come not to mind if certain people live in villages and some of my friends still appear to live in villages and a village can be cozy as well as intuitive but must one really keep perpetually explaining and elucidating?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't have to pound on that thick skull of yours and make big speeches as to what this mission means to us. I think you know. If... you do good, it means the lives of several thousand men, so do good.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Both Eliot and Pound condense; their best verse is weighted--Pound's, with sensual experience primarily, and Eliot's with beliefs.... Where the mind's life is concerned the senses produce images, and beliefs produce dramatic cries. The condensation is important.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Her sheep follow'd her, as their tails did them. (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese)... And this song is consider'd a perfect gem, And as to the meaning, it's what you please.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair; (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese)... And I met with a ballad, I can't say where, Which wholly consisted of lines like these.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is a ...300-pound blocking back who has been splitting firewood nonstop for the last twelve hours on a subzero day in Manitoba.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O how terrible it must be for a young man-- seated before a family and the family thinking... We never saw him before! He wants our Mary Lou! After tea and homemade cookies they ask What do you do for a livingLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »