History Quote by Liu Cixin

“A poet, Hephaestion, sings not to narrate human events as they occur, but to make sure that we have the opportunity of living the…

— Valerio Massimo Manfredi

“Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.”

— Lisa C. Taylor

“Poetry is the sound of the human animal.”

— Suniti Namjoshi

“Sang Ly, we are literature-our lives, our hopes, our desires, our despairs, our passions, our strengths, our weaknesses. Stories express our longing not only…

— Camron Wright

“Scientists can talk about human nature,but only poets can free those feelings we keep in the pent heart”

— Jeffrey Moore

“I am constantly reminded that we human beings are basically storytellers. More homo narrans than Homo sapiens. We see ourselves in others' stories. Every…

— Henning Mankell

“The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have never seen.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“Literature is the best thing humanity has. Poetry is the heart of literature, the highest concentration of everything that is the best in the…

— Lyudmila Ulitskaya

“Shakespeare, the greatest of poets, was the greatest reader of Nature and life.”

— Kaiten Nukariya

“For my part, I love to give myself up to the illusion of poetry. A hero of fiction that never existed is just as…

— Washington Irving

“A true poet writes from the language and experiences of their own heart, not those of others.”

— Suzy Kassem

“I find myself drawn to literature more now than in the past; not the individual works as much as the idea of literature—the heroic…

— Ruth Ozeki