[123] And the days are not full enough

Title :

And the days are not full enough

Poet :

Ezra Pound

Date :

18 Jun 1999

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And the days are not...

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And the days are not full enough

And the days are not full enough
And the nights are not full enough
And life slips by like a field mouse
                Not shaking the grass.

    -- Ezra Pound

One of those poems which seems utterly perfect in its simplicity... not
a word wasted, not a word out of place. Any further commentary on my
part would be jarring, so...

thomas.

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing
left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
    -- Antoine de Saint-Exup$B(Bry

From: Hylton Stark <Hylton.Stark@>

Impossible to find any peace after reading this poem.