Quotes About Literature

Para algo sí que sirve la licenciatura en Filología. Acabas conociendo un montón de sinónimos para definir una situación de mierda.

Todo lo que había hecho en su vida antes era sentarse delante de un libro. A absorber ideas de otros, sobre todo.

In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.

No leo. Releo. (I don't read. I re-read)

El único modo posible para el novelista de rescatar la novela consiste en abstenerse de escribirlas

Toda lectura es interpretación, no en el sentido hermeneútico, sino más bien musical del término.

Victoria Ocampo era por cierto una oligarca, pero no todas las oligarcas eran Victoria Ocampo. Las damas de la alta sociedad, como se decía entonces, no empleaban su dinero y su tiempo en la difusión de las letras ni abrazaban la causa del feminismo ni transgredían costumbres establecidas, ni se animaban a proclamar su agnosticismo; nada tenían en común con Victoria

La literatura es una cuestión de gustos, es decir, de limitaciones".

La literatura es una cuestión de gustos, es decir, de limitaciones.

Banned books always smell suspicious

a pesar de la época que nos ha tocado vivir, en la que sólo parecen contar las ventas, la importancia de una obra literaria no se mide por el dinero que sea capaz de generar, sino por los ecos que despierta en nuestro interior,

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

Yo nunca he escrito ni escribiré nada para niños, porque creo que el niño puede leer los libros que lee el hombre, con determinadas excepciones que a todos se le ocurren. También habrá excepciones para hombres y para mujeres.

We are always parting! It's supposed to be sweet sorrow or something, isn't it? Those poets. They'll say anything.

The Changing Light at Sandover, an over five-hundred-page epic poem by Pulitzer prize-winning poet, James Merrill (3 March, 1926–6 February, 1995) was inspired by what he called his "twenty-year adventure around the Ouija board," during which he spoke to dead friends and a wide assortment of spirits.

Not only are magical texts among the oldest surviving pieces of literature, but many scholars and anthropologists suggest that it was the need to record spells and divination results that stimulated the very birth of writing.

We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.

The last refuge of the intelligentsia: when life gets too difficult, go find something to read.

Ben is twenty-six, and this is his first job. He is small, weedy, and terribly, terribly serious about his work. His. Not anyone else's. He despises everyone else's. He has, however, produced our only literary fiction in the last two years that has sold over five thousand copies, so people listen to him. Which is a pity, since he doesn't really have anything to say.

Literature makes us better thinkers. It moves us to see the multi-sidedness of situations and therefore expands the breadth of our visions, moving us towards dreams and solutions we might otherwise have imagined.

Maternal absence, in one form or another, is always found in the background of the incest romance. Womens literature on incest generally treats the theme of maternal absence tragically. Mens literature trivializes it or treats it comically. And clinical literature tends to treat it judgmentally.

I can write in Latin, French, and common English. I will not, however, write in German; it is a barbaric tongue that curdles the ink.

Books enveloped the room floor to ceiling like wallpaper.

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.