(1905), Quelle: www.evahesse.de http://www.evahesse.de/ezra_pound_werk_und_leben.htm; Ezra Pound Werk und Leben <br class="br">"I am homesick after mine own kind, // And ordinary people touch me not. // [...] // Aye, I am wistful for my kin of the spirit // And have none about me save in the shadows" - In Durance (1907)
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Ezra Pound Berühmte Zitate
aus Praise of Ysolt, Poesie, Seite 38, Übersetzung: Nino Barbieri
Original engl.: "The words are leaves, old brown leaves in the spring time // Blowing they know not whither, seeking a song."
Quelle: Ezra Pound, "Poesie", Newton & Compton editori s.r.l., Roma (1977), ISBN 88-8183-753-6
„Regungslos war ich, Baum mitten im Wald // Und wusste die Wahrheit nie gesehener Dinge.“
aus The Tree, Poesie, Seite 36, Übersetzung: Nino Barbieri
Original engl.: "I stood still and was a tree amid the Wood. // Knowing the truth of things unseen before."
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Ezra Pound: Zitate auf Englisch
Ezra Pound buch ABC of Reading
Quelle: ABC of Reading (1934), Ch. 8
“Literature is news that STAYS news.”
Ezra Pound buch ABC of Reading
Quelle: 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 buch ABC of Reading
Quelle: 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
Kontext: 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
Variante: 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
Quelle: The Pisan Cantos
Ezra Pound The Cantos
Canto CXX (the concluding Canto of the 1975 edition of The Cantos')
The Cantos
