Being wise Quote by Louise Rosenblatt

Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It…

— Abraham Verghese

Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.

— George Henry Lewes

Literature presents you with alternate mappings of the human experience. You see that the experiences of other people and other cultures are as rich,…

— Chaim Potok

Literature seems to offer lessons in human nature that help us decode the world around us and be better friends.

— Nicholas Kristof

“Literature enables us to see our world and ourselves more clearly, to understand our lives more fully.”

— Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst

Literature exists because the world isn't enough.

— Fernando Pessoa

Literature allows us to be open, to listen, and to be curious.

— Tracy K. Smith

Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.

— William Stafford

Good literature substitutes for an experience which we have not oursleves lived through.

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Literature ultimately helps one to ground a deeper and wider outlook. An over-directed life without the inner resource to step outside of itself is…

— Gwee Li Sui

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

— Northrop Frye