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“Good writers are those who keep the language efficient.”
Ezra Pound kniha ABC of Reading
Zdroj: ABC of Reading (1934), Chapter 3
Kontext: Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
Axiomata (1921). Quoted in Witemeyer, Hugh (1951), The Poetry of Ezra Pound, University of California Press, p. 26
"The Tradition", in Poetry, ed. by Harriet Monroe, III, 3 (Dec. 1913), p. 137; reprinted in Literary Essays of Ezra Pound (1968), p. 91.
"Affirmations: As for Imagism", The New Age, January 1915
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.”
Quoted in A Serious Character (1988) by Humphrey Carpenter
“Poetry must be as well written as prose.”
Letter to Harriet Monroe (January 1915)
Addendum for C
Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX-CXVII
“And for one beautiful day there was peace.”
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.”
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]
Ezra Pound kniha ABC of Reading
Zdroj: ABC of Reading (1934), p. 33
“All other sins are open,
Usura alone not understood.”
Addendum for C
Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX-CXVII
Ezra Pound kniha ABC of Reading
Zdroj: ABC of Reading (1934), p. 42
Instigations of Ezra Pound (1920), p. 109
Ezra Pound kniha The Spirit of Romance
The Spirit of Romance (1910), p. 5
Ezra Pound The Cantos
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."”
From Draft of XXX Cantos (1933), No.2
“Image…that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.”
"Poetry: A Few Don'ts by an Imagist", Poetry: A Magazine of Verse (March 1913)
