Books Quote by Phillips Brooks

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

— Phillips Brooks

Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

— Oscar Wilde

“The virility of life and art lay in its possibilities for growth.”

— Kakuzō Okakura

It is the life in literature that acts upon life.

— J. G. Holland

“The Beginning and end of all literary activity is the reproduction of the world that surrounds me by means of the world that is…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

Literature precedes genre.

— Rick Moody

“Use the shadows of the born The shapes of the world And pass them before the light Of imagination's birthless ecstasy”

— Jack Kerouac

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

— William Stafford

Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory ceases with…

— Elbert Hubbard

Art is the beginning of vision into the realm of eternal life.

— Lawren Harris

Unlike life, a work of art never gets taken for granted: it is always viewed against its precursors and predecessors.

— Joseph Brodsky