Quotes About Literature

Besides, a long poem is a test of invention, which I take to be the Polar star of Poetry, as Fancy is the sails - and Imagination the rudder.

several things dove-tailed in my mind, and at once it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously—I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason

This is a mere matter of the moment. I think I shall be among the English poets after my death.

I dust a bit," Ignatius told the policeman. "In addition, I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.

John Kennedy Toole

I dust a bit, Ignatius told the policeman. In addition, I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.

John Kennedy Toole

I was in the Pre-School Play section, but we never played like the name said. We had to listen to stories some old woman read to us out of a grownup book that we didn't understand.

I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century.

Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.

les exigí que leyesen Guerra y paz hasta la última página.

y Tolstói están, por tanto, más cerca de lo que parece y nosotros tenemos la suerte de asistir a sus seminarios siempre que queramos.

Casanova was a librarian.

Robert Burns was never called Rabbie or Robbie—though he did occasionally call himself Spunkie.

George Sears, called Nessmuk, whose "Woodcraft," published in 1884, was the first American book on forest camping, and is written with so much wisdom, wit, and insight that it makes Henry David Thoreau seem alien, humorless, and French.

The authors of literary works may not have intended all the subtleties, complexities, undertones, and overtones that are attributed to them by critics and by students writing doctoral theses. That's what God says about geologists, I told him...

And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

My feeling about school was that it interfered with my reading.

If you know your Bible and your Shakespeare and can shoot craps, you have a liberal education.

Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations.

Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.

Without Greek studies there is no education.

I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.