Certain Noble Plays of Japan.
Title: Certain Noble Plays of Japan
From The Manuscripts Of Ernest Fenollosa
Author: Ezra Pound
Commentator: William Butler Yeats
"All imaginative art keeps at a distance and this distance once chosen must
be firmly held against a pushing world. Verse, ritual, music and dance in
association with action require that gesture, costume, facial expression,
stage arrangement must help in keeping the door. Our unimaginative arts
are content to set a piece of the world as we know it in a place by
itself, to put their photographs as it were in a plush or a plain frame,
but the arts which interest me, while seeming to separate from the world
and us a group of figures, images, symbols, enable us to pass for a few
moments into a deep of the mind that had hitherto been too subtle for our
habitation. As a deep of the mind can only be approached through what is
most human, most delicate, we should distrust bodily distance, mechanism
and loud noise--Certain Noble Plays of Japan.
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