Books Quote by Wallace Stevens

“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 is the history of the soul.

— Barry Hannah

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.

— Christopher Hitchens

“A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit"―”

— John Milton

Literature is humanity talking to itself.

— Norman Rush

Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.

— David Hume

“Many a man lives a burden to the Earth, but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalmed and treasured…

— John Milton

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

— E. M. Forster

“Fantastic literature has been especially prominent in times of unrest, when the older values have been overthrown to make way for the new; it…

— Franz Rottensteiner

Every few seconds a new book sees the light of day. Most of them will just be a part of the hum that makes…

— Ivan Klíma

“Man's life is brief and transitory, Literature endures forever”

— Rory Stewart

Literature is the immortality of speech.

— August Wilhelm von Schlegel