Dear Kate,
    I know nothing about Frost's interest in Eastern thought.  Could you
please enlighten me?  Thanks.


Hsiu-ling Lin
----- Original Message -----
From: Kate Cone <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 7:25 AM
Subject: Re: quick question


> 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.
>