Books Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Poetry resists academic pretension, just as the mystery of religious faith evaporates on contact with dogma.”

— Patrick White

My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.

— Charles Baxter

I took Eugene Sue's Arthur from the reading-room. It's indescribable, enough to make you vomit. You have to read this to realize the pitifulness…

— Gustave Flaubert

“All holy books are, above all, great stories whose plots deal with the basic aspects of human nature, setting them within a particular moral…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The Elephantine papyri - written as some of the books of the Bible are being written - is true social and legal documentation, and…

— Simon Schama

bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.

— George Eliot

I have this belief that we are so vulnerable when we open ourselves up to literature. We're reminded of these real parts of ourselves.

— Tracy K. Smith

“I had another reason for seeking Him, for trying to espy His face, a professional one. God and literature are conflated in my mind.…

— Paul Quarrington

“A rain forest springs from the droppings of animals and grows greater than any cultivated garden; likewise, a great mass of literary skill springs…

— Agona Apell

“It is my considered opinion that the sweetest relief from suffering and the best comfort in affliction that this world affords are to be…

— Henry of Huntingdon

It once occured to me that literature - all art really - is either talking to people about God, or talking to God about…

— Paul Quarrington

“Hence one meets in polite society few novelists, or poets, few of all those sublime creatures who speak of the things that are not…

— Marcel Proust