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

Ezra Pound

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.
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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Artist Creation Himself Work
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Artist Green Invention Learning Place True World
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Better Finding Mental Myself
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading

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