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| Ezra Pound |
«I don't remember having any difficulties returning to visit Pound at St. Elisabeth's Asylum. I asked him whether the surroundings obstructed him.
"Not at all" he said, "these are the only acceptable Americans."
«When I let him know that I was born in Saigon:
"Ah, that's why! Only Europeans with a master key to the Suez Canal are worth anything...."»
«He died quiet as always in Venice, on his tomb a [laurel] shrub inclines itself toward offerings of flowers and seeds of visiting American poets.»
From Laubies, Ritratti e Aforismi / Portraits et Aphorismes (Bilingual, Italian and French), Morgana Edizioni, Firenze, 2002.
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