I'm sorry to report that I have been trying to track that "quotation" for
years without success. I strongly suspect that it is part of an oral
tradition in which EP said to RA who said to HD who said to . . . .
 
Pat Willis
 
 
At 05:30 PM 3/17/00 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi.  I posted a query earlier, but I've noticed that the list is more active
>now, so I'll try again.  I am a student at Florida State University and I,
>along with my classmates in an Honors Seminar, have undertaken the task of
>tracking down each of the allusions found in Marianne Moore's poem
>"Marriage" in order to construct a hypertext. The poet herself has credited
>one quotation to Ezra Pound.  The line is as follows:
>
>"'A wife is a coffin.'  Ezra Pound."
>
>This is the only information given, and I have been unable to identify the
>text in which it is found.  I have located concordances to the Personae and
>Cantos and searched several electronic copies of Pound's work, but to no
>avail. If anyone recognizes this quote or has any suggestions as to where
>else I may look, please let me know.  Thank you!
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