Literature Quotes · Page 219

in a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination, and truth. In…

— Alison Lurie

As we are all solipsists, and all die, the world dies with us. Only very minor literature aims at apocalypse.

— Anthony Burgess

For ages past the Genius of Literature and the Genius of Art have walked together hand in hand. For the Goddess of…

— Howard Pyle

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world…

— David Amram

It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children.

— John Dewey

I haven't studied history - I couldn't give a discourse in medieval literature - but I am a personal historian, and I…

— Lucy Dacus

Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

With loves light wings did I o'perch this walls; For stony limits cannot hold love out. - Romeo

— William Shakespeare

Literature... is condemned (or privileged) to be forever the most rigorous and, consequently, the most reliable of terms in which man names…

— Paul de Man

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

— Amy Lowell

The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this…

— Anonymous

The first function of violence in Native American literatures is simply to acknowledge that violence is implicit, like gravity and sunlight, in…

— Robert Bringhurst

The principle of investing is that by use you possess and gain, by disuse you decline and lose.

— Edwin Louis Cole

Good evening, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Trilling the treble And twining the bass Into midnight…

— Langston Hughes

I would say 'The Chill' by Ross Macdonald is sort of a prototypical example of how the private detective genre elevates itself…

— Shane Black

Yeah, I think the arts and literature have always been irrevocably connected. Because if you think about it, every film script, every…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better…

— James Buchan

There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

I was in school for literature, and read so many 19th century and early 20th century novels that it was hard to…

— Colin Meloy

In the world of literature, I see prizes as more of a duty to the craft itself, rather than as something for…

— Wole Soyinka

It is the artist's responsibility to be the oracle, to abstract where you are - that is our responsibility - we're not…

— Lisa Gerrard

I have taught Philosophy, Religious Studies, English Literature, Cultural Studies, Writing and Publishing Studies, Critical Thinking.

— Mark Fisher

But I don't know, maybe it's just as well I never got there. I dreamed about it for so many years. I…

— Helene Hanff

The new advocates of ID [Intelligent Design] ask that their ideas be judged by scientific, not religious, criteria. OK, let's see how…

— Chet Raymo

Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words. It's not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological…

— Amos Oz