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Quotes by Ezra Pound

'The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.'

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

'The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.'

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