Ezra Pound: Frasi in inglese (pagina 3)

Ezra Pound era poeta, saggista e traduttore statunitense. Frasi in inglese.
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“And even I can remember
A day when the historians left blanks in their writings,
I mean, for things they didn't know,
But that time seems to be passing.”

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Ezra Pound The Cantos

Canto XIII
The Cantos

“One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.”

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"Affirmations: As for Imagism", The New Age, January 1915

“Here is the core of evil, the burning hell without let-up,
The canker corrupting all things, Fafnir the worm,
Syphilis of the State, of all kingdoms
Wart of the common-weal,
Wenn-maker, corrupter of all things
Darkness the defiler
Twin evil of envy,
Snake of the seven heads, Hydra, entering all things
Passing the doors of temples defiling the grove of Paphos,
neschek, the crawling evil,
slime, the corrupter of all things,
Poisoner of the fount,
of all fountains, neschek,
The serpent, evil against Nature's increase,
Against beauty”

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Addendum for C
neschek is a transliteration of the Hebrew "נֶשֶׁך" meaning "usury"
Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX-CXVII

“The art of letters will come to an end before A. D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.”

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Quoted in A Serious Character (1988) by Humphrey Carpenter

“The blossoms of the apricot
blow from the east to the west,
And I have tried to keep them from falling.”

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Canto XIII
The Cantos

“Many errors,
a little rightness.”

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Canto CXVI
The Cantos

“Poetry must be as well written as prose.”

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Letter to Harriet Monroe (January 1915)

“A pity that poets have used symbol and metaphor and no man learned anything from them for their speaking in figures”

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Addendum for C
Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX-CXVII

“And for one beautiful day there was peace.”

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Notes for CXVII et seq
Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX-CXVII

“I never was. When I left the hospital I was still in America and all America is an insane asylum.”

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When asked by the press when he had been released from the mental hospital; apparently from an interview in Naples after emigrating back to Italy after WW2, this is his most notorious quotation, though he didn't write it down.[citation needed]

“The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets literature decay than a good doctor could sit quiet and contented while some ignorant child was infecting itself with tuberculosis under the impression that it was merely eating jam tarts.”

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Ezra Pound libro ABC of Reading

Origine: ABC of Reading (1934), p. 33

“All other sins are open,
Usura alone not understood.”

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Addendum for C
Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX-CXVII

“AT ABOUT THIS POINT the weak-hearted reader usually sits down in the road, removes his shoes and weeps that he 'is a bad linguist' or that he or she can't possibly learn all those languages. One has to divide the readers who want to be experts from those who do not, and divide, as it were, those who want to see the world from those who merely want to know WHAT PART OF IT THEY LIVE IN.”

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Origine: ABC of Reading (1934), p. 42

“Artists are the antennae of the race but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust their great artists.”

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Instigations of Ezra Pound (1920), p. 109

“Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human emotions. If one has a mind which inclines to magic rather than science, one will prefer to speak of these equations as spells or incantations; it sounds more arcane, mysterious, recondite.”

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Ezra Pound libro The Spirit of Romance

The Spirit of Romance (1910), p. 5

“Pull down thy vanity, it is not man
Made courage, or made order, or made grace,
Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down.
Learn of the green world what can be thy place”

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Canto LXXXI
The Cantos

“With usura hath no man a house of good stone
each block cut smooth and well fitting
[…]
with usura
hath no man a painted paradise on his church wall
[…]
no picture is made to endure nor to live with
but it is made to sell and sell quickly”

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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

“Hang it all, Robert Browning, there can be but the one "Sordello."”

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From Draft of XXX Cantos (1933), No.2

“Image…that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.”

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"Poetry: A Few Don'ts by an Imagist", Poetry: A Magazine of Verse (March 1913)