You are hurrying to the sweet place, To the nonsense chasing your spirit And in the nonsense you look for answers. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced. — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
“Life itself has lost its plane reality: it is projected, not along the old fixed points, but along the dynamic coordinates of… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
So our student will flit like a busy bee through the entire garden of literature, light on every blossom, collect a little… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
You say fate is almost indispensable to literature - I think it's completely indispensable, at least in a novel, because a novel… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
But O, sick children of the world, Of all the many changing things In dreary dancing past us whirled, To the cracked… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the… — William Kennedy Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I'm happy with words such as "task" or "role" when they are attached to literature. I prefer to talk… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Many Europeans think that all Moroccans speak French, but no. I had to make an effort to learn it when I studied… — Abdellah Taia Copy Share Image
“I happened to pen some literature, alas, in an utterly unliterary era.” — B.S. Murthy Copy Share Image
The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“He had some taste for romance reading before he went to the university, where, we must confess, in justice to his college,… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
The English tourist in American literature wants above all things something different from what he has at home. For this reason the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
American literature has been, and is, singularly deficient in established critics who have anything like a rational conception of their jobs. The… — Burton Rascoe Copy Share Image
I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me.… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought. — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
