#ezrapound

Ezra Pound quotes Ezra Pound quotes and aphorisms, a collection of his literary creations that resonate across generations. From the depths of poetry to the heights of philosophy, Pound's words encapsulate the essence of human experience. Let his insights inspire and provoke thought in your journey through life. USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations. Ezra Pound Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. Ezra Pound There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, "It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune." Ezra Pound With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands. Ezra Pound The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people. Ezra Pound Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work. Ezra Pound No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. Ezra Pound A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct. Ezra Pound Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for a time. Ezra Pound Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use. Ezra Pound Literature is news that stays news. Ezra Pound The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity. Ezra Pound If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays. Ezra Pound A crowd pagan as ever imperial Rome was, eager, careless, with an animal vigour unlike that of any European crowd that I have ever looked at. Ezra Pound The 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. Ezra Pound Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value. Ezra Pound I have tried to write Paradise Do not move Let the wind speak that is paradise. Let the Gods forgive what I have made Let those I love try to forgive what I have made. Ezra Pound Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists. Ezra Pound Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man. Ezra Pound The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort. Ezra Pound Glance is the enemy of vision. Ezra Pound The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning. Ezra Pound What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage. Ezra Pound The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting. Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound quotes collection The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE. Ezra Pound The natural object is always the adequate symbol. Ezra Pound There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight Ezra Pound Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing. Ezra Pound But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY. Ezra Pound Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts. Ezra Pound In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries. Ezra Pound All great art is born of the metropolis. Ezra Pound People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf. Ezra Pound As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady. Ezra Pound I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible. Ezra Pound It is difficult to write a paradise when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse. It is obviously much easier to find inhabitants for an inferno or even a purgatorio. Ezra Pound I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them. Ezra Pound A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him. Ezra Pound No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliche, not from real life. Ezra Pound AS A MIND, who the hell else is there left for me to take an interest IN?? Ezra Pound The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-semitism. Ezra Pound I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic - I mean my motion. Ezra Pound Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it. Ezra Pound The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner. Ezra Pound A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. Ezra Pound The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy. Ezra Pound A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him. Ezra Pound You let me throw the bricks through the front window. You go in at the back and take the swag. Ezra Pound Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market. Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound aphorisms and quotes A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values. Ezra Pound The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people. Ezra Pound I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know. Ezra Pound A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression. Ezra Pound Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art. Ezra Pound The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth. Ezra Pound Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a "country run by Jews". Ezra Pound If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good. Ezra Pound Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt. Ezra Pound Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. Ezra Pound Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles. Ezra Pound America is a lunatic asylum. Ezra Pound What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it. Ezra Pound It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself. Ezra Pound What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely. Ezra Pound When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish. Ezra Pound To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers. Ezra Pound The temple is holy because it is not for sale. Ezra Pound Wars are made to make debt. Ezra Pound The what is so much more important than how. Ezra Pound Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Ezra Pound The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public. Ezra Pound Either move or be moved. Ezra Pound Liberty is not a right but a duty. Ezra Pound Every great change is simple. Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound quote on the lunatic Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel. Ezra Pound I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them. Ezra Pound Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views. Ezra Pound It would be about as easy for an American to become a Chinaman or a Hindoo as for him to acquire an Englishness or a Frenchness or a European-ness that is more than half skin deep. Ezra Pound I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron... I should have been able to do better. Ezra Pound Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity. Ezra Pound The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth. Ezra Pound I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me. Ezra Pound When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. Ezra Pound Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring. Ezra Pound Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe. Ezra Pound I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, Mamma, can I open the light? She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art. Ezra Pound Where the dead walked and the living were made of cardboard. Ezra Pound The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Ezra Pound There is no topicmore soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation. Ezra Pound And in the mean time my songs will travel, And the devirginated young ladies will enjoy them when they have got over the strangeness. Ezra Pound Don't be blinded by the theorists and a lying press. Ezra Pound Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds. Ezra Pound Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials. Ezra Pound Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. Ezra Pound Rhythm is form cut into time. Ezra Pound Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. Ezra Pound And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass. Ezra Pound The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation. Ezra Pound Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism... the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical. Ezra Pound It doesn't matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it. Ezra Pound Poetry is a very complex art... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols. Ezra Pound Any damn fool can be spontaneous. Ezra Pound Learn of the green world what can be thy place in scaled invention or true artistry. Ezra Pound The artist is the antenna of the race. Ezra Pound

a cura di Andrea Lombardi e Miriam Pastorino

PROFETI INASCOLTATI DEL ‘900

Disegni di Dionisio di Francescantonio

Progetto editoriale di Andrea Lombardi

Prefazione di Vittorio Sgarbi

La rassegna “Profeti inascoltati del Novecento” collega pensatori liberi ed eretici, conservatori di valori e non di costumi, e di integrità morale che costituisce l’unica forma possibile di pensiero, a un disegnatore che ne ha eseguito il volto, le ansie e le riflessioni, e ad altri scrittori che ne hanno interpretato lo spirito.  

Da Jünger a Conrad, da Pound a Borges, da Ennio Flaiano a Cristina Campo, da Bernanos ad Albert Camus. Un Olimpo siffatto, e spesso con gli stessi protagonisti, aveva illustrato, impavido, Tullio Pericoli. Oggi tocca a Dionisio di Francescantonio con il disegno e ad altri, come Stenio Solinas, con le parole. L’arte pretende quella libertà di espressione che personaggi scomodi come Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Hannah Arendt, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, il cardinale Giuseppe Siri, hanno coraggiosamente e diversamente testimoniato, anche divisi dalle violentissime vicende storiche del Novecento. Non posso che guardare con favore, quindi, i ritratti – accompagnati dagli approfondimenti di apprezzati pensatori e amici come Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, Gianfranco de Turris, Luigi Iannone e altri – di Dionisio di Francescantonio, così vivi ed espressivi, lucenti nel buio di un’epoca senza maestri.  

Dalla prefazione di Vittorio Sgarbi

Sessantasei personalità fuori dagli schemi della cultura e dell’arte illustrate dai disegni di Dionisio di Francescantonio e dagli scritti di Eraldo Affinati, Roberto Alfatti Appetiti, Gianfranco Andorno, Giorgio Ballario, Simonetta Bartolini, Davide Brullo, Piero Buscaroli, Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, Antonio Caronia, Alfredo Cattabiani, Riccardo De Benedetti, Alain de Benoist, Gianfranco de Turris, Dionisio di Francescantonio, Rachele Ferrario, Fabrizio Fratus, Luca Gallesi, Alessandro Gnocchi, Luigi Iannone, Andrea Lombardi, Gennaro Malgieri, Gian Ruggero Manzoni, Valerio Alberto Menga, Adriano Monti Buzzetti Colella, Miriam Pastorino, Guido Pautasso, Roberto Pecchioli, Alex Pietrogiacomi, Elena Pontiggia, Marco Respinti, Emanuele Ricucci, Gianni Rondolino, Alberto Rosselli, Andrea Scarabelli, Adriano Scianca, Gian Paolo Serino, Giovanni Sessa, Vittorio Sgarbi, Luca Siniscalco, Stenio Solinas, Armando Torno, Manlio Triggiani, Gianluca Veneziani e Rodolfo Vivaldi.  

Brossura, 19x26, stampato su carta avoriata, 230 pagg. ill. in b/n fotografico e colori, Euro 29,00.

Un libro della collana OFF TOPIC di ITALIA Storica, Genova 2022.

ISBN 978-88-31430-22-7

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