Ezra Pound once wrote!

A Pact

I make truce with you, Walt Whitman—

I have detested you long enough.

I come to you as a grown child

Who has had a pig-headed father;

I am old enough now to make friends.

It was you that broke the new wood,

Now is a time for carving.

We have one sap and one root—

Let there be commerce between us.

He also wrote in Notes for Canto CXX

“I have tried to write Paradise

Do not move

      Let the wind speak

        that is paradise.

Let the Gods forgive what I

        have made

Let those I love try to forgive

        what I have made.”

DO YOU SEE THE CONNECTION BETWEEN LET THE WINDS SPEAK AND THE POWER TO SUCK IN THE AIR OF SPRING?!

Ezra Pound and Walt Whitman are masters of their craft and they have climbed to the top of the heap that is rickety pile of human achievement and admitted that the air and wind are more precious on their own than any lyric they can fashion!

TWO POINTS!

ONE: This reminds me of how mad that awful Robert Frost poem made me when he tried to tell the winds how to blow! What an absolute buffoon!

TWO: I love that Ezra Pound calls himself a grown child and refers to his younger self as a pig-headed father! And then he goes on to discover for himself what Linkin Park had already been telling us the whole time! "I tried so hard and got so far but in the end it doesn't even matter!"

The point is in trying! The point is to go with full intention and belief and then look back and say "Oh yeah I was completely wrong" but you can't say that if you never try. 

DO NOT MOVE! LET THE WIND SPEAK! THAT IS PARADISE!

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU MAKE PEACE WITH WALT WHITMAN AND STOP CREATING ITALIAN FASCIST PROPAGANDA! EZRA POUND YOU ABSOLUTE DOG!