And the days are not full enough by Ezra Pound
And the days are not full enough
Ezra PoundAnd the days are not full enough
And the nights are not full enough
And life slips by like a field mouse
Not shaking the grass
MARGINALIA
Today.
ABOUT EZRA POUND
Ezra Pound is widely considered one of the most influential and most difficult poets of the 20th century; his contributions to Modernist poetry are enormous. He was an early champion of a number of avant-garde and Modernist poets, developed important channels of intellectual and aesthetic exchange between the United States and Europe, and contributed to important literary movements. Pound’s published books include A lume spento (1908), Exultations (1909), Personae (1909), Provenca… (more)
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