Literati Quotes

“The individual cannot think and communicate his thought, the governor and legislator cannot act effectively or frame his laws without words, and the solidity and validity of these words is in the care of the damned and despised litterati...when their very medium, the very essence of their work, the application of word to thing goes rotten, i.e. becomes slushy and inexact, or excessive or bloated, the whole machinery of social and of individual thought and order goes to pot.”
― Ezra Pound

“...because intelligent persons do not attempt to keep abreast with modern fiction. It is probably ascribable to the fact that they enjoy being intelligent, and wish to remain so.”
― James Branch Cabell, The Cords of Vanity

“There are too many literati, yet very few are smart; knowledge is acquired far too easily.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms