„Ha az ember lelkében nincs rend, nem képes rendet tenni maga körül.”
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Ezra Pound könyv ABC of Reading
Forrás: ABC of Reading (1934), Ch. 8
“Literature is news that STAYS news.”
Ezra Pound könyv ABC of Reading
Forrás: ABC of Reading (1934), Ch. 2 (p. 29 in the 1961 paperback)
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
Ezra Pound könyv ABC of Reading
Forrás: 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
Kontextus: 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.
'Lament of the Frontier Guard' (From Cathay, 1915)
“Without character you will
be unable to play on that instrument”
Ezra Pound The Cantos
Canto XIII
The Cantos
“How mean thy hates
Fostered in falsity
[... ]
Rathe to destroy, niggard in charity”
Ezra Pound The Cantos
Canto LXXXI
The Cantos
Guide to Kulchur (1938), p. 55
Változat: Man reading shd. be man intensely alive. The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand.
Ezra Pound The Cantos
Canto LXXXI
The Cantos
Forrás: The Pisan Cantos
Ezra Pound The Cantos
Canto CXX (the concluding Canto of the 1975 edition of The Cantos')
The Cantos
