Ezra Loomis Pound

"Men do not understand books until they have had 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. "

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

"The curse of me & my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort. "

"There is no reason why the same man should like the same book at 18 and at 48. "