Books Quote by Robert Staughton Lynd

Literature got me into this mess and literature is going to have to get me out of it.

— Philip Roth

A good writer gets better only by learning to cut, to remove the ornamental, the descriptive, the narrative, and especially the deeply felt and…

— David Mamet

I want to leave behind a literary legacy.

— Rupi Kaur

The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave

— Pat Conroy

Before now poetry has taken notice Of wars, and what are wars but politics Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody?

— Robert Frost

I'm not literary, and I'm not academic, and I don't think like a poet, so my stuff will never be like that.

— Tanya Saracho

That's what interests me in poetry. That withholding, that white space, the pressure, and my long-term faith in violent concision, is still with me.

— Lucie Brock-Broido

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

— Henry James

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

— Robert Frost

“Literature is a wound from which flows the indispensable divorce between words and things. All our blood can flow out of that hole.”

— Carlos Fuentes

Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

— Natasha Trethewey

Poetry has roots, but they are sometimes cut off and still poetry is written.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim