Ezra Pound

Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.

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

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.