You can lead a dog to drink, but you can't make him water.
P.


-----Original Message-----
From: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine on behalf of Alphaville Books
Sent: Tue 12/30/2008 7:35 AM
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Subject: Those who can, do.
 
Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach (or dig up obscure facts 
etc.). Its obvious why it seems no one on the Pound list writes  poetry 
in the spirit or with the rich complexity of the Cantos (present company 
excepted.)  The Pound list members lack the imagination.

As I've said before, I'm certain Pound would be pilloried on this list 
for many of his ideas if he had not already earned a literary 'sinecure' 
elsewhere. In short, Pound could not be a member of his own list. He 
would for a time vigorously defend his 'silly' positions against the 
cloacae. But ultimately he would have been driven off.  

Dont' tell me that even in its most ironic sense half the people heard 
from on this list would hound mercilessly anyone who proposed that if 
'the (Confucian) classics had a wide circulation' in the U.S. that the 
moral fiber of the country would be enhanced.

Or Frobenius. Or Douglas & Orage. Or a hundred other poetic conceits 
Pound held. CP
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