| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 45108 |
| QUOTATION: | Go to the adolescent who are smothered in family—
Oh how hideous it is
To see three generations of one house gathered together!
It is like an old tree with shoots,
And with some branches rotted and falling. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Ezra Pound (1885–1972), U.S. poet. Commission (l. 28–32). . .
100 Poems by 100 Poets; an Anthology. Harold Pinter, Geoffrey Godbert, and Anthony Astbury, comps. (1986) Grove Press. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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