Country Quote by Md. Ziaul Haque

All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every country should have a strong literary tradition of its own at the center, but it should also have an interest in other countries.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

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

Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture, and the people.

— Joseph Brodsky

Poetry is often very critical of the culture from which it emerges. Quite often literary critics of a nationalist bent talk up the national…

— Edna Longley

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

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

'Nation' was one that I'd have killed myself if I hadn't written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It…

— Terry Pratchett

I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I…

— Jonathan Coe

In order to have a literature, a nation must live, not merely on the practical, but on the moral and spiritual plane as well,…

— Vissarion Belinsky

“Poetry isn't important in today's culture, but the fact that it's useless and people still continue to write it makes it important, in that…

— Aaron Mc Collough

Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here.

— Phyllis McGinley