Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Quote by Ezra Pound

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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he...

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he...

Utter originality is, of course, out of the question

Utter originality is, of course, out of the question

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he...

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he...

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions...

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions...

The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than...

The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than...

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at...

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at...

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

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

Literature is news that stays news.

Literature is news that stays news.

In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people

In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people

Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose....

Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose....

Whoever is able to write a book and does not, it is as if he...

Whoever is able to write a book and does not, it is as if he...

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is...

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is...

Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by...

Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by...

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and...

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and...

A book without an index is like a mind without a memory

A book without an index is like a mind without a memory

Literature is my utopia

Literature is my utopia

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything...

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything...

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness,...

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness,...

Reading history is good for all of us, he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his...

Reading history is good for all of us, he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his...

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar...

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar...