Books Quote by Ezra Pound Download Open image “Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.” — Ezra Pound ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Language Literature
A great piece of literature encompasses all that is and all that will be. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Literature is the adventure. It's the story, it's the fight, it's people falling in love, it's people with deep personality disorders who succeed anyway… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Literature... is condemned (or privileged) to be forever the most rigorous and, consequently, the most reliable of terms in which man names and transforms… — Paul de Man Copy Share Image
It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe it. From… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure. — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Literature is, to my mind, the great teaching power of the world, the ultimate creator of all values, and it is this, not only… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, "Mamma, can I open the light?" She was using the… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“Till now they send him dreams and no more deed; So doth he flame again with might for action, Forgetful of the council of… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
It would be about as easy for an American to become a Chinaman or a Hindoo as for him to acquire an Englishness or… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.” — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
