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Great LITERATURE is simply language charged with meaning to the ultimate possible degree.	Ezra Pound
Journalism is unreadable and LITERATURE is not read. That is all.	Oscar Wilde
LITERATURE always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.	Oscar Wilde
LITERATURE is the art of writing something that will be read twice.	Cyrh Connolly
LITERATURE is the thought of thinking souls.	Thomas Carlyle
Romance is the poetry of LITERATURE.	Madame Neckers
The difference between LITERATURE and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and LITERATURE is not read.	Oscar Wilde
The man who cannot appreciate music and LITERATURE is exactly like the lower animals, even though he may not possess horns and a tail.	Bhartrihari
The only sensible ends of LITERATURE are first, the pleasurable toil of writing, second, the gratification of one’s family and friends, and lastly, the solid cash.	Hawthorne
There is first the LITERATURE of knowledge, and secondly, the LITERATURE of power. The function of the first is– to teach; the function of the second is– to move.	De Quincey