Эзра Паунд цитаты

Э́зра Уэ́стон Лу́мис Па́унд — американский поэт, переводчик, литературный критик. Один из основоположников англоязычной модернистской литературы. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. Октябрь 1885 – 1. Ноябрь 1972   •   Другие имена Ezra Loomis Pound, Езра Паунд
Эзра Паунд фото
Эзра Паунд: 75   цитат 4   Нравится

Эзра Паунд знаменитые цитаты

Эзра Паунд: Цитаты на английском языке

“Real education must ultimately be limited to one who INSISTS on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.”

Ezra Pound книга ABC of Reading

Источник: ABC of Reading (1934), Ch. 8

“Literature is news that STAYS news.”

Ezra Pound книга ABC of Reading

Источник: ABC of Reading (1934), Ch. 2 (p. 29 in the 1961 paperback)

“If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good.”

As quoted after his arrest for treason; see Treason: the story of disloyalty and betrayal in American history http://books.google.com/books?id=lXZKAAAAMAAJ&q=%E2%80%9CIf+a+man+isn%27t+willing+to+take+some+risk+for+his+opinions,+either+his+opinions+are+no+good+or+he%27s+no+good%E2%80%9D&dq=%E2%80%9CIf+a+man+isn%27t+willing+to+take+some+risk+for+his+opinions,+either+his+opinions+are+no+good+or+he%27s+no+good%E2%80%9D&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RgacUteRAZDYoATC1IDYCg&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAjgU by Nathaniel Weyl (1950), p. 400

“Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.”

Ezra Pound книга ABC of Reading

Источник: ABC of Reading (1934), p. 25

“My worst mistake was the stupid suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism, all along.”

A dinner table conversation quoted in Composed on the tongue, "Encounters will Ezra Pound" by Allen Ginsberg

“If a man have not order within him
He can not spread order about him”

Ezra Pound The Cantos

Canto XIII
The Cantos
Контексте: If a man have not order within him
He can not spread order about him;
And if a man have not order within him
His family will not act with due order;
And if the prince have not order within him
He can not put order in his dominions.

“Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”

Guide to Kulchur (1938), p. 55
Вариант: Man reading shd. be man intensely alive. The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand.

“The temple is holy because it is not for sale.”

Ezra Pound The Cantos

Canto XCVII
Источник: The Cantos