A Word Is Elegy To What It

Pound Described Poetry As Original Research In Language, And Just As Formal Experiment In Poetry Has To Try Things And Has To Go Too Far, So Does Experiment With Writing About Politics In Poetry And What The Politics Of Poetry Is.

It Is Good Sometimes For Poetry To Disenchant Us.

It's Hell Writing And It's Hell Not Writing. The Only Tolerable State Is Having Just Written.

Poetry Is A Fireplace In Summer Or A Fan In Winter.

If We Want To Have A Two-class Society And An Unemployed, Welfare-crippled Lower Class That Has No Access To Equality And Educational Opportunity And No Access To Jobs And Is Resentful And Furiously Angry, We Can Have It - That's What We've Been Willing To Pay For So Far.