Ezra Pound Quotes about Fear

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Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase! Some quick to arm, some for adventure, some from fear of weakness, some from fear of censure, some for love of slaughter, in imagination, learning later . . . some in

Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase! Some quick to arm, some for adventure, some from fear of weakness, some from fear of censure, some for love of slaughter, in imagination, learning later . . . some in fear, learning love of slaughter; Died some, pro patria, non "dulce" non "et decor" . walked eye-deep in hell believing in old men's lies, the unbelieving came home, home to a lie.

Ezra Pound

Fear, Lying, Believe

'Hugh Selwyn Mauberley' (1920) 'E. P. Ode pour l'èlection de son sèpulcre' pt. 4

The man who fears war and squats opposing My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson But is fit only to rot in womanish peace

Ezra Pound

Fear, War, Men

Ezra Pound, Richard Sieburth (2010). “New Selected Poems and Translations”, p.11, New Directions Publishing

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

Ezra Pound

Fear, Writing, Optimistic

Ezra Pound (2003). “Poems and Translations”

See, they return; ah, see the tentative Movements, and the slow feet, The trouble in the pace and the uncertain Wavering! See, they return, one, and by one, With fear, as half-awakened; As if the snow should hesitate And murmur in the wind, and half turn back.

Ezra Pound

Fear, Wind, Feet

Ezra Pound (1957). “Selected Poems”, p.24, New Directions Publishing

Ezra Pound Quotes about Fear

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