"Great literature is simply language charged with meaning……" — Ezra Pound
"Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree."
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174 Quotes by Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound has 174 quotes on this site.
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The real meditation is ... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voilà une chose!! You try it. You try finding…
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If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.
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The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one…
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Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control…
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All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew…
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with…
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because…
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then…
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More Charged Quotes
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one of 293 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra.
— Leslie Caron
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As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend.
— Jack Abramoff
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I love acting, but being an actor for hire only serves so much, and then you want to fill your…
— Jennifer Aniston
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What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be…
— Thomas Hobbes
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For every force charged by God, may He be exalted, with some business is an angel put in charge...
— Maimonides
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An author accepting language's invitation to dance steps onto the floor of his her sensibility-charged consciousness and begins to move…
— Aberjhani
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Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I will keep my body charged with energy for fulfillment of my purpose, in accord with that which is commanded…
— Walter Russell
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It is true that the movie is perhaps my most politically-charged. The story is thrust into motion by the idea…
— Todd Solondz
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Stay keeping my cup full so I'm extra charged like a state tax.
— Drake
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The Church must never be satisfied with the ranks of those whom she has reached at a certain point or…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to…
— Toni Morrison
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