Ezra Pound

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

"It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week."

"When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary."

"Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding."

"When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary."

"Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents."