And the days are not full enough

Ezra Pound

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.

Commentary

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


The Wondering Minstrels, poem #123 · 17 June 1999

Poem selected by Abraham Thomas

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Hylton Stark · 29 December 2001

Impossible to find any peace after reading this poem.