Threshold/literature

Famous quotes containing the words threshold and/or literature:

“On the threshold of any wholly new and momentous devoted enterprise, the thousand ulterior intricacies and emperilings to which it must conduct; these, at the outset, are mostly withheld from sight.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)