"Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe." — 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.