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

 

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


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This quote is just one of 11 total Ezra Pound quotes in our collection. Ezra Pound is known for saying 'Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.' as well as some of the following quotes.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Ezra Pound

Language is made out of concrete things. General expressions in non- concrete terms are a laziness, they are talk, not art, not creation. They are the reaction of things on the writer, not a creative act by the writer.

Ezra Pound

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

Ezra Pound

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good.

Ezra Pound

Genius ... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Ezra Pound