Books Quote by Vissarion Belinsky

Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

— William Shakespeare

National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The literature of many lands is rich with the tributes that gratitude, admiration and love have paid to the great and honored dead. These…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I wish to put together an imaginary nation. It is my belief that no other nation is possible, or rather, I believe that authors…

— Robin Blaser

“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

A poet is the creator of the nation around him, he gives them a world to see and has their souls in his hand…

— Johann Gottfried Herder

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I think that the idea that there's such a thing as a national literature that's somehow uniquely expressive of a national soul or culture…

— Louis Menand

Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society.

— Guo Moruo

The simple point is that literature belongs to the world man constructs, not to the world he sees; to his home, not his environment.

— Northrop Frye

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

— George Washington