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! >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com