A Quote by August Wilhelm von Schlegel
Literature is the immortality of speech.
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Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair. Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed. The skalds, the bards, the writers are not separate and exclusive. From the beginning, their functions, their duties, their responsibilities have been decreed by our species. --speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1962
It's always easy to get people to condemn threats to free speech when the speech being threatened is speech that they like. It's much more difficult to induce support for free speech rights when the speech being punished is speech they find repellent.
A great speech is literature.
Freedom of speech doesn't guarantee great literature.
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.
Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.
Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.
If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech.
If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.
Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.
I have four daughters and eight grandchildren. My soul lives on in them. That's immortality. That's the only immortality I care about.
Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed
That there is as yet no drug for immortality - or, for that matter, for muscle growth in the infirm - does not mean that immortality is theoretically or even technically impossible.
Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.
Most of us do know we have no immortality. And when you've found a genius, someone who has already purchased his immortality in musical or literary terms, it's maddening.
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