William Butler Yeats Quotes

What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident?

William Butler Yeats

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• Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Literature
  • Understand
  • Gold

• I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature and all the things I thought went on in cities.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Things
  • Thought
  • Literature

• When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Man
  • Literature
  • Pen

• I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Friends
  • Man
  • Nice

• Beauty without expression is boring.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Beauty
  • Expression
  • Boring

• The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • American
  • Literature

• Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.

  

  Edmund White
  • Political
  • Community
  • Body

• I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Person
  • Thought
  • Expression

• As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • History
  • Always
  • English

• It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Work
  • Language
  • English

• There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Mind
  • Culture
  • Strong

• I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Believe
  • Love
  • For Him

• My house is filled with books, most of which I have read, some of which I intend to eventually get to. I'm always reading at least one work of fiction and one work of non-fiction simultaneously. Whatever mood I'm in, there's always a book nearby to suit it.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Work
  • Book
  • House

• Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
  • Language
  • Literature
  • Economics

• Music is very powerful and can make you feel whatever it is. If you listen to gospel, you're going to feel thankful, and you're going to want to call up people that you hate and tell them that you love them. When you listen to sexual music, it gets you in the mood.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Feel

• Literature is memory written down. All literature is memory.

  

  Wayne Grady
  • Literature
  • Memory
  • Down

• Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Life
  • Great
  • Important

• I like to be comfortable, and don't like to be cold, and I don't like to wear anything I'm not in the mood for.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Cold
  • Mood
  • Comfortable

• I love writing for young people. It's the literature that was most important to me, the stories that shaped me and informed my own journey as a writer.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • People
  • Important
  • Writing

• Free expression is the gateway to assimilation. Consequently, radical Islam cannot tolerate it.

  

  Andrew C. McCarthy
  • Free
  • Expression
  • Assimilation

• I think that literature quite often emerges from areas where there has been a lack of articulation, like women's writing.

  

  Edna Longley
  • Writing
  • Literature
  • Areas

• Prayers born out of murmuring are always dangerous. When, therefore, we are in a discontented mood, let'us take care what we cry for, lest God give it to us, and thereby punish us.

  

  William Mackergo Taylor
  • Giving
  • Prayer
  • Mood

• A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.

  

  William Gibson
  • Mind
  • Computer
  • Complexity

• What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident?

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Literature
  • Mood
  • Expression