"Mouths biting empty air"

In Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, section Mauberley, part II at the end just before
The Age Demanded

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From: "Sean Pryor" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 9:53 PM
Subject: Mouthfuls of air


> Hi,
>
> I have a vague memory that Pound directly quotes Yeats's line "I made it
out
> of a mouthful of air" (from "He thinks of those who have Spoken Evil of
his
> Beloved") in his prose somewhere - can anyone point me in the right
> direction? I know a few possible echoes or allusions in the Cantos
(81/542:
> "To have gathered from the air a live tradition"; 83/53: "begotten of
air";
> 90/628: "the stone taking form in the air"), but I can't find the direct
quote.
>
> Many thanks
> Sean
>
> (and apologies if it's somewhere blindingly obvious and I've missed it)
>
>
>
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>
> Sean Pryor
> Trinity College
> Cambridge
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