Ezra Pound - Literature Quotes

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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

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If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

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The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets literature decay than a good doctor could sit quiet and contented while some ignorant child was infecting itself with tuberculosis under the impression that it was merely eating jam tarts.

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The tip's a good one, as for literature
It gives no man a sinecure.
And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece.
And give up verse, my boy,
There's nothing in it.

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

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