I don't have any of the books in front of me, so this may be wrong--but
isn't it in the introduction blurb to Selected Poems?
> I'm trying to find a quotation from Pound in which he says of himself
> something like this: "1917-began study of war, to determine causes of
> same."  I may have the year and other parts of this wrong, but that's
> the phrase that's in my head.  Can anyone help?
>
> Burt Hatlen


      How can one live freely and without law?
      To this enigma man must find an answer,
      on pain of death.
       Albert Camus, from "Metaphysical Rebellion"

Robert E Kibler, PhD.
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