Jon & Anne Weidler wrote:
>
>   What's good about Pound, in two sentences or less --
> isolated examples are encouraged.

                                must dig with my fingers
        as nobody will lend me or sell me a pick axe.
        Exercises my lungs, revives my spirits opens my pores
        reading Tully on Cataline quickens my circulation
                        Canto 73

Is that enough? Try one or two more.

        lord of his work and master of utterance
                who turneth his word in its season and shapes it
                        Canto 74

        (and the mortal fatigue of action postponed)
                        Canto 80

(The last for anyone who has ever suffered from clinical depression.)

Carrol Cox

P.S. Then the line everyone has quoted for 70 years, and is still worth
quoting:

        In the gloom, the gold gathers the light against it.
                        Canto 11

                        "In the gloom the gold
        Gathers the light about it"...
                        Canto 17