Literature Quotes
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A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.
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The theory of politics that emerges from the political literature of the pre-Revolutionary years rests on the belief that what lay behind every political scene, the ultimate explanation of every political controversy, was the disposition of power.
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Give thy mind to books and libraries, and the literature and lore of the ages will give thee the wisdom of sage and seer.
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The history of literature is the history of the human mind.
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Literature is the new foreplay.
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You can tell a man's taste in literature by his judgment in knowing what not to read.
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Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.
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When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written.
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Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.
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Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.
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Literature is dialogue; responsiveness.
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Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world—a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious—surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic-materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable-loving, primitive ages of humanity.
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In my profession it isn’t a question of telling good literature from bad. Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money — it’s always been like that. What do I, an agent, get out of a literary genius who won’t be discovered for another hundred years? I’ll be dead myself then. Successful incompetents are what I need.
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There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature.
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One of the most obvious uses of literature, I think, is its encouragement of tolerance... Bigots and fanatics seldom have any use for the arts, because they're so preoccupied with their beliefs and actions that they can't see them also as possibilities.
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I think that's an important part of art in general. Especially in literature, in stories, we play with eventualities that may put us through a lot of intense negative feelings - say, in horror films or tragedies as intense as King Lear - but we come out feeling richer. We've lived to the fullest, we've tested ourselves in these environments.
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I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.
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Mrs. James, my fifth-grade teacher introduced us to these authors early on and taught us that their literature is important. Langston Hughes - we read his poetry. We studied who W.E.B DuBois was. And so she whetted our appetites.
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Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes. Homes that have a spirit of refinement and beauty will bless the lives of your children forever.
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Literature is the thought of thinking souls.
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Few nations match our rich resource of literature.
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Literature seemed to be everything then. People looked to it for the strength to live, for guidance, for revelation.
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Reduced... to a crude formula, the Russian tragedy is precisely the tragedy of a society in which literature turned out to be the prerogative of the minority.
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Literature is the only access to truth we have on this planet.
