Quotes About Literature

This is no book; Who touches this, touches a man; (Is it night? Are we here alone?) It is I you hold, and who holds you; I spring from the pages into your arms...

Although this poetry collection was first published in 1855, when Whitman was 36 years old, the poet spent his whole life revising the poems in several editions.

A leitura está cheia de aromas.»

Here I sit gossiping in the early candle-light of old age—and my book—casting backward glances over our travel'd road.

To take expression, to incarnate, to endow a literature with grand and archetypal models — to fill with pride and love the utmost capacity, and to achieve spiritual meanings, and suggest the future — these, and these only, satisfy the soul.

Pessimism all along the line. Absolutely. Mistrust in the fate of literature, mistrust in the fate of freedom, mistrust in the fate of European humanity, but three times mistrust in all reconciliation: between classes, between nations, between individuals. And unlimited trust only in IG Farben and the peaceful perfecting of the air force. But what now? What next?

Books, too, begin like the week – with a day of rest in memory of their creation. The preface is their Sunday.

What figure does the man of letters cut in a country where his employer is the proletariat ?

In einem sind pornographische Bücher wie alle andern: darin nämlich, daß sie auf Schrift und Sprache gegründet sind.

A Dostoeivski le interesaba la psicología; sacó a la luz la parte criminal que hay en el hombre. A Brecht le interesa la política; saca a la luz la parte criminal que hay en el negocio.

The "meaning of life" is really the center about which the novel moves.

Em consequência, o romance não é significativo por descrever pedagogicamente um destino alheio, mas porque esse destino alheio, graças à chama que o consome, pode dar-nos o calor que não podemos encontrar em nosso próprio destino. O que seduz o leitor no romance é a esperança de aquecer sua vida gelada com a morte descrita no livro.

once i began to read I began to exist

the ideas I found in books helped me imagine a life I wanted to live.

My books. They were my only real friends growing up.

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Later that year, a similar note left for her added, "If you don't mind, I'd like to come over this evening to read with you.

In a paper he wrote in the spring of 1907, he began by exuding a joyful self-assurance about having neither the library nor the inclination to know what other theorists had written on the topic. "Other authors might have already clarified part of what I am going to say," he wrote. "I felt I could dispense with doing a literature search (which would have been very troublesome for me), especially since there is good reason to hope that others will fill this gap.

Print encourages a sense of closure, a sense that what is found in a text has been finalized, has reached a state of completion.

Many of the features we have taken for granted in thought and expression in literature, philosophy and science, and even in oral discourse among literates, are not directly native to human existence as such but have come into being because of the resources which the technology of writing makes available to human consciousness.

Is it possible to be wiser on the page than you are in life? I'm hoping so.

I have to agree that most people in America read a kind of a fiction which is not of a high literary calibre. People read for entertainment.

Willa was wearing a blue dress reminding me of the femme fatale of one of my favorite novels.

In the wide pile, by others heeded not, Hers was one sacred solitary spot, Whose gloomy aisles and bending shelves contain For moral hunger food, and cures for moral pain.