Skip to main content

Song in the Manner of Housman...

Song in the Manner of Housman" O woe, woe, People are born and die, We also shall be dead pretty soon Therefore let us act as if we were dead already. The bird sits on the hawthorn tree But he dies also, presently. Some lads get hung, and some get shot. Woeful is this human lot. Woe! woe, etcetera.... London is a woeful place, Shropshire is much pleasanter. Then let us smile a little space Upon fond nature's morbid grace. Oh, Woe, woe, woe, etcetera.

Ezra Pound 274 quotes

The intellect is a very nice ...

The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.

Ezra Pound 274 quotes

I should consent to breed und...

I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and the nerves of any woman I could live with three months, would produce only a victim... lacking in impulse, a mere bundle of discriminations. If I were wealthy I might subsidize a stud of young peasants, or a tribal group in Tahiti.

Ezra Pound 274 quotes

Almost any fool can paint an ...

Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.

Ezra Pound 274 quotes

Haie! Haie! These were the sw...

Haie! Haie! These were the swift to harry; These the keen-scented; These were the souls of blood. Slow on the leash, pallid the leash-men!

Ezra Pound 274 quotes

The eyes of this dead lady sp...

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 274 quotes

Genius... is the capacity to ...

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Ezra Pound 274 quotes

Real education must ultimatel...

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

Ezra Pound 274 quotes

Good art however 'immoral' is...

Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Ezra Pound 274 quotes

Gloom and solemnity are entir...

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 274 quotes

Technique is the test of sinc...

Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.

Ezra Pound 274 quotes

In our time, the curse is mon...

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

Ezra Pound 274 quotes

Good writers are those who ke...

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

Ezra Pound 274 quotes

The real trouble with war (mo...

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

Ezra Pound 274 quotes

The act of bell ringing is sy...

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

Ezra Pound 274 quotes

Poetry is a language pared do...

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

Ezra Pound 274 quotes

Use no superfluous word, no a...

Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.

Ezra Pound 274 quotes

The only thing one can give a...

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 274 quotes

Be not cheap or mediocre in d...

Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.

Ezra Pound 274 quotes

The artist is always beginnin...

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

Ezra Pound 274 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

23

Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

83

Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

115

Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

219

Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

541

Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

165

Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....