Absolutes Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think it is an important question of our lives - what is the meaning of literature to us as humans.

— Robert Dessaix

When literature exists, perhaps we do not notice how important it is, but when it does not exist, our lives become coarsened and brutal.…

— Mo Yan

“Nothing is important except the fate of the soul; and literature is only redeemed from an utter triviality ... by the fact that it…

— G.K. Chesterton

Literature speaks with everyone individually - it is personal property that stays inside our heads. And nothing speaks to us as forcefully as a…

— Herta Muller

“The singular power of literature lies not in its capacity for accurate representation of mass commonalities, but its ability to illuminate the individual life…

— Nicole Krauss

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human…

— M. H. Abrams

Literature... is condemned (or privileged) to be forever the most rigorous and, consequently, the most reliable of terms in which man names and transforms…

— Paul de Man

What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.

— Brent Weeks

“Literature is, to my mind, the great teaching power of the world, the ultimate creator of all values, and it is this, not only…

— William Butler Yeats

“But the thing about Literature is, well, basically it encapsulates all the disciplines - it's history, philosophy, politics, sexual politics, sociology, psychology, linguistics, science.…

— David Nicholls

What literature brings to our times is always the fact that literature refuses to bring any simple or easy answers.

— Sjon

Literature matters so much to me I can hardly stand it.

— David Shields