Top 1200 World Literature Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Love can't be a metaphor anymore. If you try to make literature out of it, it doesn't work.

You have a lot to learn, young man. Philosophy. Theology. Literature. Poetry. Drama. History. Archeology. Anthropology. Mythology. Music. These are your tools as much as brush and pigment. You cannot be an artist until you are civilized. You cannot be civilized until you learn. To be civilized is to know where you belong in the continuum of our art and your world. To surmount the past, you must know the past.

Children's literature is one of my joys, and it's also my mental comfort food.

The desire to create literature leads to frights, grunts, and coy looks.

Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.

I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.

What lasts is what is written. We look to literature to find the essence of an age.

The demand for absolute purity of genres is becoming nowadays an anachronism in literature.

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle

Few nations match our rich resource of literature.

I have grown up in a family where cinema, literature and music are highly valued.

Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.

They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of children’s literature of the twentieth century.

My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.

Literature has its own life, even in a dictatorship like the Soviet Union.

Science and literature are both ways to ask questions about why we're here.

In the garden of literature, the highest and the most charismatic flowers are always the quotations.

Literature led me to freedom, not the other way round.

The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism.

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

It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

One of the first courses I ever taught at Dartmouth was on the Bible as literature.

Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilization that made them.

Never too late to learn a language. And the good literature to come with it.

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

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest.

We're at economic war with China. It's in all their literature. They're not shy about saying what they're doing.

I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.

Like no other writer in contemporary American literature, Brock Clarke has a way of looking at us, I mean looking straight at us--warts, lots of warts, and beauty and hypocrisy and love, too, the gamut. And hes done it again in this brilliant The Happiest People in the World, a novel that is as hilarious and thought-provoking as it is ultimately, deadly, deadly serious. I for one am grateful hes out there--watching our every move.

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

Shall you complain who feed the world? Who clothe the world? Who house the world? Shall you complain who are the world, Of what the world may do? As from this hour You use your power, The world must follow you!

Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.

The greatest works of literature seem to embody both "art" and "morality".

Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.

Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written.

I like European and South American literature, but mostly I read nonfiction.

As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.

I majored in the history and literature of Russia and Britain. It has not helped my career.

Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.

I don't wish to be a slave any longer to the stringent exigencies of literature.

Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.

I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time.

Literature may open a third eye in the middle of the reader's forehead.

Literature is a peculiarly public product of a particularly private endeavor.

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

I tend to think history is more a branch of literature than science.

Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

Advances in technology neither impede nor augment literature.

Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.

The world is not something separate from you and me; the world, society, is the relationship that we establish or seek to establish between each other. So you and I are the problem, and not the world, because the world is the projection of ourselves, and to understand the world we must understand ourselves. That world is not separate from us; we are the world, and our problems are the world's problems.

Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.