Great literature is simply
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. Ezra Pound
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. Ezra Pound
Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering him, so it is with the author; with his great dreams he helps his readers to survive, to avoid their worst intentions. And society, without realizing it respects and even exalts him, albeit with a kind of … Read more
There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly. Ernest Hemingway
Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning seem ordinary and inevitable, but it is impossible to foresee their consequences. These have only been found out by long study, extending over many centuries. Much of our knowledge is due to a … Read more
Leisure, itself the creation of wealth, is incessantly engaged in transmuting wealth into beauty by secreting the surplus energy which flowers in great architecture, great painting and great literature. Only in the atmosphere thus engendered floats that impalpable dust of ideas which is the real culture. A colony of ants or bees will never create … Read more
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
Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal. Francoise Sagan
What’s strange is how many beginning writers seem to think that grammar is irrelevant, or that they are somehow above or beyond this subject more fit for a schoolchild than the future author of great literature. Francine Prose
Feel like criticizing any one,\” he told me, \”just remember F. Scott Fitzgerald