Ezra Pound idézet

oldal 3

„Rabszolga az, ki arra vár, hogy felszabadítsák.”

„Olyan volt, mint víz, mely nem tűr hajót,
s mit nem gyűrhet le a vihar -
mint az ár, melyet megfélemlített
feddő, szelíd szavaival.”

“It is better to present one image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous work.”

“It has been complained, with some justice, that I dump my note-books on the public.”

“But the beauty is not the madness
Tho’ my errors and wrecks lie about me.
And I am not a demigod,
I cannot make it cohere.”

“But the one thing you shd. not do is suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.”

“To be men not destroyers”

“Make it new!”

“Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.”