„La poesía debe estar tan bien escrita como la prosa.“
Carta a Harriet Monroe (enero de 1915)
Frases célebres
Frases Ezra Pound
„El templo es sagrado porque no está en venta.“
Cantos, XCVII
Frases célebres
„Más grande que el amor a la libertad, es el odio a quien te la quita“
Sin fuentes
Frases célebres, Sin verificar
— Ezra Pound, libro ABC of Reading
Fuente: ABC of Reading (1934), Ch. 8
— Ezra Pound, libro ABC of Reading
Fuente: ABC of Reading (1934), p. 25
„Literature is news that STAYS news.“
— Ezra Pound, libro ABC of Reading
Fuente: ABC of Reading (1934), Ch. 2 (p. 29 in the 1961 paperback)
„If a man have not order within him
He can not spread order about him“
— Ezra Pound, The Cantos
Canto XIII
The Cantos
Contexto: 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.
