Books Quote by August Wilhelm von Schlegel Download Open image “Literature is the immortality of speech.” — August Wilhelm von Schlegel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Communication Death Immortality Literature Speech
We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust. — Mick Farren Copy Share Image
Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It's what all writers dream of, that our work finds a measure of immortality that long outlives the words of any critic. — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
“Literature is not a game for the cloistered elect. Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
The thinker requires exactly the same light as the painter, clear, without direct sunshine, or blinding reflection, and, where possible, from above. — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
Authorship, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, is an infancy, a pastime, a labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, or… — August Wilhelm Von Schlegel Copy Share Image
Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotismat… — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
Formerly it was the fashion to preach the natural; now it is the ideal. People too often forget that these things are profoundly compatible;… — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
What a conception of art must those theorists have who exclude portraits from the proper province of the fine arts! It is exactly as… — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
“ In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first step forward in faith. ” — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
That which exists in nature is a something purely individual and particular. Art, on the contrary, is essentially destined to manifest the general. — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, a… — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith. — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
