PHILOSOPHY OF LOVE 



drought or a crowding. The liquid solution must be 

 kept at right consistency; one would say the due pro- 

 portion of liquid to viscous particles, a good circulation; 

 the actual quality of the sieve or separator, counting per- 

 haps most of all; the balance of ejector and retentive 

 media. 



Perhaps the clue is in Propertius after all: 

 Ingenium nobis ipsa puella fecit. 



There is the whole of the Xllth century love cult, and 

 Dante's metaphysics a little to one side, and Gourmont's 

 Latin Mystique; and for image-making both Fenollosa 

 on "The Chinese Written Character," and the paragraphs 

 in "Le Probleme du Style." At any rate the quarrel be- 

 tween cerebralist and viveur and ignorantist ends, if 

 the brain is thus conceived not as a separate and desic- 

 cated organ, but as the very fluid of life itself. 



EZRA POUND 

 June 21, 1921. 



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