“Their ghosts are gagged, their books are library flotsam, Some of their names - not all - we learnt in school But,… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
I think Twitter is the literature of the 21st century. I think it's an incredible art because when you make a book,… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
“Modern civilization depends on science … James Smithson was well aware that knowledge should not be viewed as existing in isolated parts,… — Joseph Henry Copy Share Image
All those hints and glimpses of a larger and more satisfying democracy, which literature and our own hopes supply, have a tendency… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
But music doesn't sum up my approach to literature - even in Vain Art of the Fugue. To 'fugue' I had to… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
I thoroughly believe that reading and literature can help a society to better understand itself. — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
Literature is a far more ancient and viable thing than any social formation or state. And just as the state interferes in… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The air brightened, the running shadow patches were now the obverse, and it seemed to him that the fact that the day… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
My own view is that violence is a part of classical Haida literature - and of every mythology everywhere, so far as… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy. It's purpose is to discern the consequences of various ways of allocating… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I changed my major to English literature, which was on the advice of my father. I finally said, "You know, Dad, to… — Keith Carradine Copy Share Image
Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Jesse believed stories were the collective memories of the world, recorded in books so that each of us could know who we… — Shaun David Hutchinson Copy Share Image
the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Just as once upon a time you could make the experience of religion or nature a great metaphor, so now it is… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A Christian philosophy of literature begins with the same agenda of issues that any philosophy of literature addresses. Its distinctive feature is… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
I'm finding myself increasingly attracted to literature that starts with pessimism as it's leading point and goes from there. — Tom Burke Copy Share Image
In any period it is upon a very small minority that the discerning appreciation of art and literature depends ... They are… — F. R. Leavis Copy Share Image
Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely. — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
