Death Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I do not come out of a literary tradition.

— Richard Flanagan

“We know that to give writing its future, it is necessary to overthrow the myth: the birth of the reader must be at the…

— Roland Barthes

All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that…

— Havelock Ellis

“Yet if the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted in following the ways of the immediate generation before us in a blind…

— T.S. Eliot

“All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Tradition is not good simply because it is tradition. It is for what it has given us and only so long as an alternative…

— Friedrich A. Hayek

“After all, life was like that for most of us – the small unpleasantnesses rather than the great tragedies; the little useless longings rather…

— Barbara Pym

“Death is universal. The rituals associated with it, however, vary substantially—and are greatly influenced by their religious and cultural context.”

— Richard J. Borden

“…This remains the great deficiency of literature: its imitation of nature cannot prepare you for the main events. For the main events, only experience…

— Martin Amis

What is literary tradition? What is a classic? What is a canonical view of tradition? How are canons of accepted classics formed,and how are…

— Harold Bloom

Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or to whom they are related.

— Heinrich Heine