Adventure Quote by Roland Barthes

Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words.

— Amos Oz

Literature is a form of language that breaks with the whole definition of genres as forms adapted to an order of representations, and becomes…

— Michel Foucault

No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language…

— Octavio Paz

Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words. It's not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's…

— Amos Oz

“Literature is the aesthetic exploitation of language”

— Anthony Burgess

“This isn’t the case with literature. Literature simulates life. A novel is a story of what never was, and a play is a novel…

— Fernando Pessoa

The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of…

— Italo Calvino

Literature is the immortality of speech.

— August Wilhelm von Schlegel

Language and, presumably, literature are more ancient and inevitable, more durable than any form of social organization. The revulsion, irony, or indifference often expressed…

— Joseph Brodsky

I don't think of literature as an end in itself. It's just a way of communicating something.

— Isabel Allende

“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarates, the performing arts (such…

— Fernando Pessoa