“Great language and great literature do not survive long without each other” — Lance Conrad Copy Share Image
Religion I have defined as "Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art". — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
It's a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
This dwarf still observes the world from his own self-imposed height. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“You are my shaper and my world as well. It is done. No need to choose.” — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.” — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians,… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
When you look at classical structures, they're often linked to literature, music, or a poem. They were constructed by master builders, which… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
I love to read different books on completely different subjects at the same time. I cannot focus on one. I read a… — Gustavo Dudamel Copy Share Image
“I know what loves are trembling into fire; how jealousy shoots its green flashes hither and thither; how intricately love crosses love;… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Ever since childhood, I've been interested in history and myth. Not just the facts and figures of the past, but everything that… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
The whole of the Amazonian narcotic complex, as it's called in the old literature, is based on activation of DMT by one… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
What was needed was a literary theory which, while preserving the formalist bent of New Criticism, its dogged attention to literature as… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's tribulation: not because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Art, not less eloquently than literature, teaches her children to venerate the single eye. Remember Matsys. His representations of miser-life are breathing.… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I would argue, for perspective's sake, that the arc of a really literary work is precisely that it both intensely reflects, and… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
There is only as much space, only as much time, only as much desire, only as many words, only as many pages,… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
The Puritan, of course, is not entirely devoid of aesthetic feeling. He has a taste for good form; he responds to style;… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In college, I was dead set on being a philosophy major, because I wanted to figure out the meaning of life. Four… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors. — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it. — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart. — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.” — René Descartes Copy Share Image
... to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“People who want to change everything in the world but never think of changing themselves are clapping with one palm.” — Subhan Zein Copy Share Image
He confided his deepest secret to you; be always wary of his secret. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man. — John Adams Copy Share Image
In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts. — Yahoo Serious Copy Share Image
“That was always my fear, that perhaps books would lead me astray, teaching me about a life that didn’t match reality.” — Stefanos Livos Copy Share Image
