Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
Ezra PoundObjectivity and again objectivity, and expression: no hindside-before-ness, no straddled adjectives (as "addled mosses dank"), no Tennysonianness of speech; nothing-nothing that you couldn't, in some circumstance, in the stress of some emotion, actually say.
Ezra PoundThe flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
Ezra PoundReal education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Ezra Pound