Quote by Ezra Pound
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

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. – Ezra Pound

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Men
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I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic — I mean my motion. – Ezra Pound

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Exile
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Other Quotes from
Literature
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The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper — whether little or great, it belongs to Literature. – Sarah Orne Jewett, letter to Willa Cather

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Literature
[L]iterature is a garden of weeds as well as flowers… – Henry Hallam, Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteen

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Literature

The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh delight. – Samual McChord Crothers

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Literature

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. – Mark Twain

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Literature

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We must not let our passions destroy our dreams. – Thomas S. Monson

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Dreams

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. – Thomas Browne

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Death

Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, wed finally cobbled together our low budget film. – Yahoo Serious

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finance

Goodness is beauty in the best estate. – Christopher Marlowe

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Integrity