“I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.”
William Lyon Phelps (1865–1943) American author, critic and scholar
“AT ABOUT THIS POINT the weak-hearted reader usually sits down in the road, removes his shoes and weeps that he 'is a bad linguist' or that he or she can't possibly learn all those languages. One has to divide the readers who want to be experts from those who do not, and divide, as it were, those who want to see the world from those who merely want to know WHAT PART OF IT THEY LIVE IN.”
— Ezra Pound, book ABC of Reading
Source: ABC of Reading (1934), p. 42
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