• Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.

  Ezra Pound
  American poet 1885-1972
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. proportional
2. definite
3. function
4. exactly
5. ability

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Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use. by : Ezra Pound

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