“Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.”

“Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work. --Ezra Pound”

“My pawing over the ancients and semi-ancients has been one struggle to find out what has been done, once and for all, better than it can ever be done again, and to find out what remains for us to do, and plenty does remain, for if we still feel the same emotions as those who launched a thousand ships, it is quite certain that we came on these feelings differently, through different nuances, by different intellectual gradations. Each age has its own abounding gifts yet only some ages transmute them into matters of duration.”

“No one knows, at sight a masterpiece.And give up verse, my boy,There's nothing in it.Likewise a friend of Bloughram's once advised me:Don't kick against the pricks,Accept opinion. The Nineties tried your gameAnd died, there's nothing in it.”

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

“A great spirit has been amongst us, and a great artist is gone.”

“Nothing matter but the quality/ of the affection—/in the end—that has carved the trace in the mind dove sta memoria”