Age Quote by Dana Gioia

“And that is to say, of course, that you can "read" a culture without its literature, without the bother of gathering and holding its…

— Richard Mitchell

“There is no better recreation for the mind than the study of the ancient classics. Take any one of them into your hand, be…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Marx was troubled by the question of why ancient Greek art retained an ‘eternal charm’, even though the social conditions which produced it had…

— Terry Eagleton

Literature is the voice of the age and the state; the character, energy, and resources of the country are reflected and imaged forth in…

— Edward Everett

National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“At times I wondered whether writing was not a solipsistic luxury in countries like mine, where there were scant readers, so many people who…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What…

— Susan Sontag

Literature transcends national boundaries, racial boundaries. It goes deep into the issues that concern all human beings. That is why, when people read Greek…

— Gao Xingjian

The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but thet are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of thought

— Bernard Bailyn

More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.

— Oscar Wilde

I believe that culture begins in the cradle . . .To do without tales and stories and books is to lose humanity's past, is…

— Jane Yolen

“All civilization comes through literature now, especially in our country. A Greek got his civilization by talking and looking, and in some measure a…

— William Dean Howells