Эзра Паунд цитаты

„Если не можете решить, какой из двух равноценных курсов действия избрать, – изберите более дерзкий.“

„Если человек не готов взять на себя некоторый риск за свои взгляды, либо его взгляды никуда не годятся, либо он никуда не годится.“

„Литература — это новости, которые не устаревают.“

„Цивилизованный человек — тот, кто на серьезный вопрос дает серьезный ответ. Цивилизация сама по себе есть некий трезвый баланс ценностей.“

„Я знаю, что то, о чем говорил Ницше, – правда,
И все же,
На улице я видел лицо маленького ребенка,
И оно было прекрасным.“

„Люди находят идеи скучными, потому что не отличают живые идеи от набитых чучел на полке.“

„A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.“

„When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.“

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

„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), Ch. 8

„No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.“

— Ezra Pound, книга ABC of Reading

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

„Literature is news that STAYS news.“

„There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight“

— Ezra Pound, книга ABC of Reading

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

„The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet black bough.“

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

„Who brought this to pass?
Who has brought the flaming imperial anger?
Who has brought the army with drums and with kettle-drums?
Barbarous kings.
A gracious spring, turned to blood-ravenous autumn,
A turmoil of wars-men, spread over the middle kingdom,
Three hundred and sixty thousand,
And sorrow, sorrow like rain.“

— 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.

„Without character you will
be unable to play on that instrument“

'Lament of the Frontier Guard' (From Cathay, 1915)

„How mean thy hates
Fostered in falsity
[... ]
Rathe to destroy, niggard in charity“

— Ezra Pound, The Cantos

Canto XIII
The Cantos