Ezra Pound on Writing

[skip.knox]

I just discovered this lovely bit of work from Ezra Pound. It expresses well how I often feel.

Ezra Pound. The Lake Isle. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

 

[Steerpike]

Love it.

Makes me want to take up pipe smoking again!

 

[T.Allen.Smith]

Love it.

Makes me want to take up pipe smoking again!

Reminded me of your short story Old Dagon Dark.

 

[Steerpike]

Reminded me of your short story Old Dagon Dark.

Haha. I wrote that back when I still smoked. Sometimes the smell of the tobacco entices me much like the narrator of the story, except not to the extent of committing murder