Wednesday, May 30, 2012

 

Raison d'Être

Ezra Pound (1885-1972), "Hudson: Poet Strayed into Science," The Little Review (May-June, 1920), rpt. in Selected Prose 1909-1965, ed. William Cookson (New York: New Directions, 1975), pp. 429-432 (at 430):
...in an age of pestilence like our own there is little but the great art of the past to convince one that the human species deserves to continue...



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