Books Quote by Gyorgy Ligeti

“Literature, especially poetry, and lyric poetry most of all, is a kind of family joke, with little or no value outside its own language-group.”

— George Orwell

One of my proudest achievements is that when an authoritative book about Hungarian literature came out about a decade ago, there was a little…

— Tibor Fischer

Addiction is a very compelling subject for literature - especially now that it's nearly impossible to come out of adult experience without some addiction…

— Porochista Khakpour

I'm an enormous fan of American literature, and especially the great novels of Larry McMurtry, 'Lonesome Dove,' Cormac McCarthy, Elmore Leonard.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

“Fantastic literature has been especially prominent in times of unrest, when the older values have been overthrown to make way for the new; it…

— Franz Rottensteiner

I look at western literature and especially North American literature, and I feel like it gets bogged down so much with all of that,…

— Miguel Syjuco

“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

Literature especially has an interesting relationship to photography - to observation, to description, to fiction: taking something that you see and elaborating, jamming, and…

— Larry Sultan

There's so much to be found in literature, especially if you don't have the money to travel or the means to get out of…

— Saul Williams

I have the idea that lyric poetry is a poetry that's driven by a sense of the presence of death. That there's something unbearable…

— Edward Hirsch

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.

— A. E. Housman

It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have…

— Boris Pasternak

No one can threaten poetry. It's always been there, always will be. Humans need it to live: it has sustaining powers. How could we…

— Gregory Orr

“There are only so many people capable of putting together words that stir and move and sing. When it became possible to earn a…

— C.M. Kornbluth

Most lyric poetry is about love, whether yearned after, fulfilled, or wistfully regretted; what isn't tends to consist of laments and cris du coeur…

— Michael Dirda