The thought of what America would be like
If the Classics had a wide circulation
Troubles my sleep (Cantico del Sole)
Tags: classics
Нет такой формы банальности, которую нельзя без труда превратить в пятистопный ямб. Если человек научился считать до десяти, ему не сложно начать новую строку с каждого одиннадцатого слога или отбивать каждый второй слог с ударением.
Ezra PoundTags: poetry-life
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.
Ezra PoundTags: education learning homeschooling homeschool
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
Ezra PoundThe eyes of this dead lady speak to me
For here was love, was not to be drowned out.
And here desire, not to be kissed away.
The eyes of this dead lady speak to me.
Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr.
Ezra PoundIt is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.
Ezra PoundTags: fear optimism poetry despair difficulty pound cynicisim
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. It doesn't matter whether the good writer wants to be useful, or whether the good writer wants to be harm.
Ezra PoundTags: writing
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
Ezra PoundTags: economics
The temple is holy because it is not for sale
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