„concerning this selfstyled world’s greatest and most generous literary figure: who had just arrived in our nation’s capitol, attired in half a GI uniform and ready to be hanged as a traitor by the only country which ever made even a pretense of fighting for freedom of speechRe Ezra Pound — poetry happens to be an art; and artists happen to be human beings.“

— E.E. Cummings

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„We're at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to the stars, and it's been said if we lose that war, and in so doing lose this way of freedom of ours, history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening.“
— Ronald Reagan
„And Ezra Pound and T. S. EliotFighting in the captain's towerWhile calypso singers laugh at themAnd fishermen hold flowers…“
— Bob Dylan
„Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.“
— Fulton J. Sheen