Top 1200 World Literature Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation.

It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself.

I was far away from Marathi literature, theatre, arts, everything. I was a late entrant to it.

Great song lyrics are as valid a part of American literature as any novel.

Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die.

I believe in a world of justice and human rights for all. A world where girls can grow up free of fear of abuse. A world where women are treated with the respect and dignity that is their right. A world where poverty is not acceptable. My dear young friends, you can make this your world.

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.

When I was young, when I started to write, we were totally convinced that literature was a kind of weapon.

The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.

I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

You know, gynecology has a role; sex is a gift. And literature is not about sending messages.

Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature.

Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

I prefer to talk about the gift of literature rather than its role or task.

Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.

The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

I love 19th-century Russian literature, the avant garde, the Soviet period.

Movies are more likely than literature to reach deep feelings in people.

It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.

American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter.

Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.

The book I'm looking for,' says the blurred figure, who holds out a volume similar to yours, 'is the one that gives the sense of the world after the end of the world, the sense that the world is the end of everything that there is in the world, that the only thing there is in the world is the end of the world.

American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter

I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature.

Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.

Literature plays a huge role in examining difficult real-life issues.

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

Asian literature is evolving with the people. It's always a reflection on what's happening to the culture at large.

Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.

Few places on earth have been as affectionately alchemised into literature as the Lake District.

I believe that literature always goes precisely there where the damage to a person has been done.

It's a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature.

As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value

I do think that part of literature's job is to comment on and participate in the social issues of the time.

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit.

While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.

I see a lot of people who have amazing stories but have been told that their work, their lives, and their stories and not the stuff of literature. Or they're first-generation college student, first-generation American, and their family just doesn't understand the art world. They have a lot of guilt. "We came all the way from [wherever] so you could do this?" Those people may not be showing the moxie, but that's because they don't even know what's possible. So I want to jump in and say, "Actually, your story is amazing, and I believe in you.".

The social scene at the Harvard I knew was outside the rules of literature. It was less poignant.

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

When literature is discovered, a revelation occurs: the joyful, exultant knowledge that anything can happen.

In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.

make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression.

Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary.

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.

To begin with, let us take the following motto...Literature is Love. Now we can continue.

It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol.

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.

Literature is the daughter of heaven, who descended upon earth to soften and charm all human ills.

The body of the woman is the overwhelming triumph of flesh. The woman is a concrete universal; she is a world, not an externalized world, but under the world, the warm interiority of the world, a compressed internalized world.

I got my degree in philosophy and English literature; those were my main interests.

Literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors.

Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy.

I strongly believe that literature can do something that nothing else can do, and that is embody the human spirit.