Monday 6 October 2014

In exitum cuiusdam*




*On a certain one's departure

"Time's bitter flood"!  Oh, that's all very well,
But where's the old friend hasn't fallen off,
Or slacked his hand-grip when you first gripped fame?
I know your circle and can fairly tell
What you have kept and what you have left behind:
I know my circle and know very well
How many faces I'd have out of mind.

Ezra Pound

5 comments:

  1. http://weaverofgrass.blogspot.com6 October 2014 at 12:30

    One of my favourite poets, haven't read him lately so shall go and get his book off the shelf this afternoon and indulge myself for an hour.

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  2. A n'er more difficult man than Pound
    and n'er a more bloody difficult quote than this Gwil.

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  3. Thanks Rachel. Pound is interesting, I'd put it that way. Supporting Mussolini was a step too far for the Americans so they threw him in the looney bin and. Threw away the key, probably a forerunner of today's goings on in a certain institution in Cuba.

    Thanks Pat for your comment which arrived somewhere else.

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  4. Very cryptic "Thanks Pat for your comment which arrived somewhere else".
    Did it get lost?

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  5. We are the lost and found department here. I recently found a couple of comments from several months ago.

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