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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the ut

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. – Ezra Pound

Other quotes by Ezra Pound

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. Its listed as part of the poetic training, you know. – Ezra Pound

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Trust
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people. – Ezra Pound

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War
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight. – Ezra Pound

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I… was seized very early with a passion for literature, which has been the ruling passion of my life, and the great source of my enjoyments. – David Hume (1712–1776)

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The object of literature is to make man a wiser and happier being. The poet makes us happy because he tells us how we may become so. – Charles Lanman, “Thoughts on Literature,” 1840

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Literature is the echo of life. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847), paraphrase

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Literature is news that stays news. – Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading, 1934

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Welcome, winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless. – Terri Guillemets

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