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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
Translation
Ezra Pound

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

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

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Literature is news that stays news.
Literature
Ezra Pound

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If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
Literature
Jean-Paul Sartre

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Literature is the immortality of speech.
Literature
August Wilhelm Von Schlegel

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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
Literature
Seneca

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Perversity is the muse of modern literature.
Literature
Susan Sontag

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Remarks are not literature.
Literature
Gertrude Stein

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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
Literature
Wallace Stevens

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How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?
Literature
Wallace Stevens

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A louse in the locks of literature.
Critics and Criticism
Lord Alfred Tennyson

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The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.
Literature
Tristan Tzara

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Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
Literature
Thornton Wilder

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun