#literature

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

— Ezra Pound

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

— Ezra Pound

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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. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

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It began in mystery and it will end in mystery, but what a rare and beautiful country lies in between. ↗

— Diane Ackerman

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Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

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Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

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Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

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During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms. ↗

— Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

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I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny. ↗

— Ma Jian

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