Who wrote these two lines in poetry?

[saywhut]

"Sit still. Let the wind speak. That is paradise."
and
Try to "suck the marrow out of life"!

 

[Chris]

the second quote is from Henry David Thoreau's "Walden"

 

[John W]

The first is slightly misquoted from Pound, "Notes for Canto XX"

I have tried to write Paradise

Do not move
Let the wind speak
that is paradise.

Let the Gods forgive what I
have made
Let those I love try to forgive
what I have made.

http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/ezrapound/16167