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

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

—  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

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

—  Эзра Паунд

„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

„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)

„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.

„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

„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

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

—  Ezra Pound