Quotes About Literature

When writing a book what is more important? Grammar and spelling or telling a great story? I know which I would choose.

Writing's in the nouns.

The difference between reading a good book and Facebook, is that a good book is always hard to put down, whereas on Facebook it's become too easy to put anyone down.

The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.

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

The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.

I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.

All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born.

Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think that , as a rule, a poet should read them.

In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.

I myself have never called what I write anti-poetry. I also think that my poetry should not be only known as the poetry of Ernesto Cardenal but rather as Nicaraguan poetry.

In the history of old Jewish literature there was never any basic difference between the poet and the prophet. Our ancient poetry often became law and a way of life.

I feel the written word, poetry and literature is just one of the most beautiful things that human beings do. So we have to fight for it.

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.