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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

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week. – Ezra Pound

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Art
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Ezra Pound
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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barbers wax dummy is to sculpture. – Ezra Pound

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Poetry
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Ezra Pound
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Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man. – Ezra Pound

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Scholars, Scholarship
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Other Quotes from
Literature
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To literature belongs the mighty privilege of embalming, for all ages, the departed kings of intellect. There they repose within the eternal pyramids of their fame. – Robert Aris Willmott, “Glimpses of the Pageant of Literature,” c.1844

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Literature

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

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Literature

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote. – E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951

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Literature

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. – Clifton Fadiman

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Literature

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I really liked the snake that breaks out of the cage in the beginning of the movie. I saw it in real life, and it was really cool. Really big and fat. The owls are cool as well, but you cant really pet them. – Tom Felton

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cool

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom. – Julia Ward Howe

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Wisdom

Maybe we all change over time. – Elizabeth Edwards

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Change

You have to trust your body to take care of you. – A. J. Langer

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Trust