The Christian message was like a dream ("We have been in Heaven," reported the Russian delegates, returning from Saint Sophia)—the Slavs loved dreams and poetry very much; but the Christian faith was stated to be a reality, and the Slavs, as men the world over, considered reality as more solid than any dream.
— from The Religious Spirit of the Slavs Three Lectures Given in Lent, 1916 by Nikolaj Velimirović

There are lucky first steps in "The American" and "Europeans," a precocity of result, for certainly some of his early work is as permanent as some of the ripest, and more so than a deal of the intervening.
— from Instigations Together with An Essay on the Chinese Written Character by Ezra Pound