Language Wittgenstein

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“Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

“Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?—In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?—Or is the use its life?”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)