Ezra Pound Quotes About Language
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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And the betrayers of language ...... n and the press gang And those who had lied for hire; The perverts, the perverters of language, the perverts, who have set money-lust Before the pleasures of the senses; howling, as of a hen-yard in a printing-house, the clatter of presses, the blowing of dry dust and stray paper, foetor, sweat, the stench of stale oranges.
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I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, Mamma, can I open the light? She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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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.
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