All great art is born of the metropolis.
From Ezra Pound
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.
If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
Either move or be moved.
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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