Ezra Pound
“If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.”
“And the days are not full enough and the nights are not full enough, and life slips by like a field mouse not shaking the grass.”
“Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.”
“Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance.”
“And the days are not full enough; and the nights are not full enough.”
“Make it new.”
“Literature is news that stays news.”