“I desired my dust to be mingled with yours
Forever and forever and forever.”
Ezra Pound (1885–1972) American Imagist poet and critic
“Mingle my dust with the burning brand,
Scatter it free to the sky
Fling it wide on the ocean’s sand,
From peaks where the vultures fly.”
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith (August 28, 1925)
Letters
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