Art Quote by F. R. Leavis

The few really great-the major novelists ... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.

— F. R. Leavis

I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet.

— Francois Mauriac

The letters of famous people can be placed into two categories: there is the type of letter which becomes itself a valuable contribution to…

— Muriel Spark

There are very few great poets in the world.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things…

— Stephen Spender

I know who the great poets are.

— Jack Kerouac

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

— V. S. Naipaul

The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.

— John Lancaster Spalding

Taking the question in general, I should say, in the case of many poets, that the most important thing for them to do ...…

— T. S. Eliot

Real novelists, those we admire, those we consider timeless in their language and character and scene, those who receive accolades for inventive language and…

— Susan Straight

All great writers have, of course, an atmosphere in which they seem most at their ease and at their best; a mood of the…

— Virginia Woolf

Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!

— Phyllis Bottome