Quotes About Literature

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

To do it artificially, to try to hype myself into being a better writer by doggedly reading better literature, is also a mistake. I learn to use the language by the pleasures it gives me when I am able to swim in it or maneuver in it or interchange in it with the people around me.

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.

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Once he gave her a Rothko book—an interesting choice, since like Elliott, Rothko also attended Lincoln High School in Portland (as had poet Gary Snyder and Simpsons creator Matt Groening). The

I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can't write unless you read.

Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great or original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour:England hath need of thee: she is a fenOf stagnant waters.

Scorn not the sonnet; Critic, you have frowned,Mindless of its just honors; with this keyShakespeare unlocked his heart.

For a multitude of causes, unknown to former times, are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor... To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have conformed themselves.

MILTON! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen

Choice word, and measured phrase; above the reach   Of ordinary men; a stately speech!

Cunning authors cut to be quoted.

Quotation lovers love rare words.

Maria Edgeworth grumbled against vandals who ruined immortal works by quoting the life out of them. "How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a glance at what they have already withered and blasted of the favourite productions of our most popular poets." Shakespeare, Milton, and Dryden, scissored, patched, and frayed.

Quotologists encounter happy surprises, bright books by faded authors, treasures hidden under dust.

FRANK: Do you know Yeats? RITA: The wine lodge? FRANK: No, WB Yeats, the poet. RITA: No. FRANK: Well, in his poem 'The Wild Swans At Coole',Yeats rhymes the word "swan" with the word "stone". You see? That's an example of assonance. RITA: Yeah, means getting the rhyme wrong.

Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.

I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.

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

When, for instance, we say that a literary work is good or bad, we are making a value judgment (...) Objective evidence for subjective preferences does not makes the value judgment itself objective, but merely objectifies the preference.

There is more of a nation's politics to be got out of its poetry than out of all its systematic writers on public affairs and constitutions.

You devour a book meant to be read, not because you would fill yourself or have an anxious care to be nourished, but because it contains such stuff