Status Updates From Selected Poems of Ezra Pound

Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are.
Come, my friend, and remember
that the rich have butlers and no friends,
And we have friends and no butlers.
Come, let us pity the married and the unmarried.

Dawn enters with little feet
like a gilded Pavlova
And I am near my desire.
Nor has life in it aught better
Than this hour of clear coolness,
the hour of waking together.

Some great examples of Imagism I have come across. Of course, aside from the famous “Station of the Metro”:
- Erat Hora
- Albâtre

Stanza I of “The Plunge”:

I would bathe myself in strangeness:
These comforts heaped upon me, smother me!
I burn, I scald so for the new,
New friends, new faces,
Places!
Oh to be out of this,
This that is all I wanted
-save the new.

Some incredibly complex, beautiful writing and also some real insanity. Not sure I'm ready for the Cantos

Most people will find things that they like in this book, and things that they dislike; only persons who like poetry and have trained themselves to like poetry will like it all. And of such persons there are not many
T.S. Eliot (From The Introduction)