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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

Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music. – Ezra Pound

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Music
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Ezra Pound
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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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Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art. – Ezra Pound

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

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Literature

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us! – James Russell Lowell

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Literature

Literature is the question minus the answer. – Roland Barthes

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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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Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Dont be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, its just death. – Lena Horne

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The dirty little secret is that the pool man, whos making $30,000 a year, is subsidizing the million-dollar mortgage for the family whose pool he cleans. No wonder people want to get rid of tax breaks for corporate jets. – Dee Dee Myers

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