Books Quote by Ezra Pound

It's partly the fault of the institutions of education. But it's partly the decision to be relieved of responsibility. Literature is simply the most…

— Joseph Brodsky

A great piece of literature does not try to coerce you to believe it or agree with it. A great piece of literature simply…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.

— Christian Bauman

I have no illusions that my work can rouse the masses to create change, because literature simply doesn't have that power anymore in my…

— Miguel Syjuco

Freedom of speech doesn't guarantee great literature.

— Pankaj Mishra

A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged. The final…

— James Weldon Johnson

The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature."

— Kate Zambreno

Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.

— Shirley Hazzard

The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great.

— Doris Lessing

This act of empathy, that women go through from the time we're little girls - we read all of literature, all of history, it's…

— Meryl Streep

Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the…

— William Butler Yeats

Nothing better protects a human being against the stupidity of prejudice, racism, religious or political sectarianism, and exclusivist nationalism than this truth that invariably…

— Mario Vargas Llosa