Kate,

This may be unrelated to your path of study, I don't
know, but if you have access to a copy of the NPF's
"William Carlos Williams: Man and Poet"  you'll find
in one of the first chapters Allen Ginsberg discussing
what he considers the "close to the nose" buddhist
sympathy/outlook in the observations/
writings of Williams.

Look it up. It's worth consideration...

Much luck. J.


--- Kate Cone <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Linda:
>
> I'm not a Pound expert, but am on the digest doing
> research on E.E.
> Cummings.
>
> But the quote:
>
> In the Tao Te Ching there is a quote, "As you
> contemplate, so are you
> contemplated."
>
> Just rang a bell.
>
> I'm very interested in how the modern poets (if
> that's the right term) were
> interested in Eastern thought. I see it in Frost,
> Cummings, Emerson, Thoreau
> (now I'm meandering backwards in time . . .) but in
> my American Studies
> program here in Maine my prof's think I'm crazy and
> flat out deny any such
> influence. Sigh!!
>
> Kate Cone
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Linda Cahir" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 5:57 PM
> Subject: quick question
>
>
> An Ezra Pound quote--or some piece of it--which I
> love keeps rattling in my
> head. Does anyone know the source and the correct
> wording of:
>
> What you look hard at has a way of looking back hard
> at you.
>
> Thank you so much for taking the time to read, and,
> perhaps even to respond
> to this query. I appreciate it.


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