Paul Allen

“It seemed that the marriage had reached the traditional truce, the point at which so many resign themselves to cutting both their losses and their hopes.”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

“We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.”
― Ezra Pound

“I have detested you long enough.
I come to you now as a grown child”
― Ezra Pound

“Hate is not born in the trenches
nor among 2nd. lieutenants.”
― Ezra Pound, The Cantos