At the Tomb of Shakespeare.
Quoted in Seeking a Nation Within a Nation, CBC Canada https://www.cbc.ca/history/EPCONTENTSE1EP5CH12LE.html
Excellent Quotations for Home and School Selected for the use of Teachers and Pupils (1890) by Julia B. Hoitt, p. 218.
Context: Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
Canto XLV
Regarding usura, in 1972 Pound wrote in the foreword to "Selected Prose, 1909-1965":
<blockquote>"re USURY
I was out of focus, taking a symptom for a cause.
The cause is AVARICE."</blockquote>
The Cantos
"Letter from a Master Addict to Dangerous Drugs", written in 1956, first published in The British Journal of Addiction, Vol. 52, No. 2 (January 1957), p. 1 and later used as footnotes in Naked Lunch
“Reader, look,
Not at his picture, but his book.”
To the Reader [On the portrait of Shakespeare prefixed to the First Folio] (1618), lines 9-10
Kenneth Sisam (ed.) Fourteenth Century Verse and Prose ([1921] 1955) p. 3.
Criticism
“779. He that marries for wealth sells his liberty.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his picture.”
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887)
