Age Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

National literature no longer means very much, the age of world literature is due.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the hatred disappears…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.

— Joseph Joubert

Europe is a rapidly changing place, on every level. Immigration, post-communist transitions, the unification, steady presence of war and conflict, the inescapable challenges to…

— Aleksandar Hemon

America is a nation of liars, and for that reason science fiction has a special claim to be our national literature, as the art…

— Thomas M. Disch

Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above…

— James Connolly

Writer's make national literature, while translators make universal literature.

— Jose Saramago

I think that the idea that there's such a thing as a national literature that's somehow uniquely expressive of a national soul or culture…

— Louis Menand

The dominant question for us with regard to literature has become, 'What does this have to do with me, with life as I know…

— Elif Batuman

Writers throughout the ages have one weapon, which is literature, but they also have their responsibilities as a citizen when literature does not seem…

— Wole Soyinka

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is…

— Ezra Pound

Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"—"not permitted"—"this you can and that you can't." Literature that is not the air of its contemporary society,…

— Anonymous

Drama - what literature does at night.

— George Jean Nathan

...the tale that's told for no other reason but companionship, which is another (and my favorite) definition of literature, the tale that's told for…

— Jack Kerouac

I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of what is…

— Northrop Frye