Literature Quotes
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What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident?
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I did not discover literature of any kind until I was about eleven, or ten.
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There are people whom even children’s literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.
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Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.
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Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.
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Anglo-Saxons created a vernacular literature to which the continental nations at that time could show no parallel.
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Literature is not a sack race. There aren't real winners and losers in the Republic of Letters.
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I can't believe that people really prefer to go to the concert hall under intellectually trying, socially trying, physically trying conditions, unable to repeat something they have missed, when they can sit at home under the most comfortable and stimulating circumstances and hear it as they want to hear it. I can't imagine what would happen to literature today if one were obliged to congregate in an unpleasant hall and read novels projected on a screen.
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I don't really need to be inspired by literature though. At the end of the day it's colour and imagery moved around until it works.
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Vain man is apt to think we were merely intended for the world's propagation and to keep its human inhabitants sweet and clean; but, by their leaves, had we the same literature he would find our brains as fruitful as our bodies.
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There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.
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To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
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The power of literature does not lie in resonance with the particular but the way that the particular speaks to a broader, more universal truth.
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As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's nothing in it.
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All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare.
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Chess is my profession. I am my own boss; I am free. I like literature and music, classical especially. I am in fact quite normal; I have a Bohemian profession without being myself a Bohemian. I am neither a conformist nor a great revolutionary.
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Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in the service of a moral, political, and cultural idea.
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When I was a worker I busied myself with socialist or, if you like, marxist literature.
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I think about all the people who have created something that lives after them - works of art, plays, music, films, literature, poetry that will be read, seen, performed, and heard for the rest of time. If I could do something that lives after me, then I think I will have had a life well led.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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There is nothing sacred or untouchable except the freedom to think. Without criticism, that is to say, without rigor and experimentation, there is no science, without criticism there is no art or literature. I would also say that without criticism there is no healthy society.
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To begin with, let us take the following motto...Literature is Love. Now we can continue.
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The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.
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Science is a limited way of knowing, looking at just the natural world and natural causes. There are a lot of ways human beings understand the universe - through literature, theology, aesthetics, art or music.
