"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say" Italo Calvino via @openculture http://t.co/kKghUmvOI3
— Luca Orlassino (@orlayesno) August 12, 2014
I think this makes a nice pairing with Ezra Pound—Literature is language charged with meaning. Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. Also "Literature is news that STAYS news." (ABC of Reading)