<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391266" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Portrait d'une Femme</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea,<br>London has swept about you this score years<br>And bright ships left you this or that in fee:<br>Ideas, old gossip, oddments of all things,<br>Strange spars of knowledge and dimmed wares of price.<br>Great minds have sought you -- lacking someone else.<br>You have been second always. Tragical?<br>No. You preferred it to the usual thing:<br>One dull man, dulling and uxorious,<br>One average mind -- with one thought less, each year.<br>Oh, you are patient, I have seen you sit<br>Hours, where something might have floated up.<br>And now you pay one. Yes, you richly pay.<br>You are a person of some interest, one comes to you<br>And takes strange gain away:<br>Trophies fished up; some curious suggestion;<br>Fact that leads nowhere; and a tale for two,<br>Pregnant with mandrakes, or with something else<br>That might prove useful and yet never proves,<br>That never fits a corner or shows use,<br>Or finds its hour upon the loom of days:<br>The tarnished, gaudy, wonderful old work;<br>Idols and ambergris and rare inlays,<br>These are your riches, your great store; and yet<br>For all this sea-hoard of deciduous things,<br>Strange woods half sodden, and new brighter stuff:<br>In the slow float of differing light and deep,<br>No! there is nothing! In the whole and all,<br>Nothing that's quite your own.<br>Yet this is you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ezra+Pound">Ezra Pound</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391266" data-title="Portrait d'une Femme de Ezra Pound" data-description="Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea, London has swept about you this score years And bright ships left you this or that in fee: Ideas, old gossip, oddments of all things, Strange spars of knowledge and dimmed wares of price. Great minds have so..."></div> </div> </div>

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