Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness… — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
The literature of the immediate future will inevitably turn away from painting, whether respectably realistic or modern, and from daily life, whether… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can't touch - like England 's grass network of lanes 100… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know. — Paloma Elsesser Copy Share Image
I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Of course my books are translated into many languages. I have here, in my home, translations on my shelf of my books… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“Literature works from mind to mind and is more progenitive. It is at once more universal and more poignantly particular. If it… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
To a degree which is difficult to determine, the esoteric impulse in twentieth-century music, literature and the arts reflects calculation. It looks… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
I've translated a lot of American literature into Japanese, and I think that what makes a good translator is, above all, a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Just in higher education alone, more people go to college now, by enormous amounts, than went to college in the '50's and… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
I this day was spectator of the most magnificent Triumph that certainly ever floted on the Thames, considering the innumerable number of… — John Evelyn Copy Share Image
There is nothing “still” in the remarkably visceral poems of Alexander Long's third collection, Still Life, and nothing is at rest in… — David St. John Copy Share Image
“When was the last time an American president found it worth his while to write a speech on the importance of art… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,'… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam,… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I always loved science. And in fact, I got a science award in high school. I mean, I loved science, but I… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
As a student in England, I studied French and English literature. I read L'Etranger and the rhythm of the novel felt familiar… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
My work is a matter of fundamental sounds (no joke intended) made as fully as possible, and I accept responsibility for nothing… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
“In one sense at any rate it is more valuable to read bad literature than good literature. Good literature may tell us… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A film carries six fine arts - it consists of architecture, painting, music, writing or literature, photography and performance. It's a conjecture… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
There are people whom even children's literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
It perhaps might be said--if any one dared--that the most worthless literature of the world has been that which has been written… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
Our lives are greatly enriched when we immerse ourselves in literature and spiritual writing, not because we are going to be tested… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
England gave me a language and literature, the basis of what I am as a writer, but when I started writing more… — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Copy Share Image
Someone — Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? — once said that anything that can be read twice is literature; I would say that… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
Luckily, what you trade off in not being part of the comic book canon and not having some literature that you can… — Dallas Roberts Copy Share Image
It is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“We shared a daughter? I'd not thought about it that way before. If we shared a daughter, and something happened to Claire,… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
