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

Ezra Pound
Some Similar Quotes
  1. No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves it is the woman only who can make it a torment. - Jane Austen

  2. Language is the key to the heart of people. - Ahmed Deedat

  3. After all, tomorrow is another day! - Margaret Mitchell

  4. That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them! - Connie Willis

  5. Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly. - Matthew Quick

More Quotes By Ezra Pound
  1. Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.

  2. It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

  3. The Garden En robe de parade. - SamainLike a skein of loose silk blown against a wall She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens, And she is dying piece-mealof a sort of emotional anaemia. And round about there is a rabble...

  4. L'artGreen arsenic smeared on an egg-white cloth, Crushed strawberries! Come, let us feast our eyes.

  5. And round about there is a rabble Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor. They shall inherit the earth.

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