Эзра Паунд цитаты

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

—  Эзра Паунд

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

—  Эзра Паунд

„Литература — это новости, которые не устаревают.“

—  Эзра Паунд

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

—  Эзра Паунд

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

—  Эзра Паунд

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

—  Эзра Паунд

„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

„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

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

—  Ezra Pound

„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)

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

—  Ezra Pound

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

—  Ezra Pound

„How mean thy hates
Fostered in falsity“

—  Ezra Pound, The Cantos

Canto LXXXI
The Cantos
Контексте: How mean thy hates
Fostered in falsity
[... ]
Rathe to destroy, niggard in charity

„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.

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

—  Ezra Pound, The Cantos

Canto XIII
The Cantos

„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

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

„And the days are not full enough
And the nights are not full enough
And life slips by like a field mouse
Not shaking the grass“

—  Ezra Pound

„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.“

—  Ezra Pound

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.

„Speak against unconscious oppression,
Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative,
Speak against bonds.“

—  Ezra Pound