28 Quotes About Literature-about-literature

Its very unfortunate to earn Fame as Comforts, Happiness and Easy Life...all these can never meet on a same line.

As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready to enlarge their store.

She saw how the mind makes forever, in order to store the things it had already lost.

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow represents a condensed compendium of literary efforts from a life dedicated to transforming the themes of injustice, grief, and despair that we all encounter during some unavoidable point of our existence into a sustainable life-affirming poetics of passionate creativity, empowered spiritual vision, and inspired commitment.

When I spoke to her in Spanish I was not translating, I was not thinking my thoughts in English first, but I was nevertheless outside the language I was speaking, building simple sentences with the blocks I’d memorized, not communicating through a fluid medium.

The rebellion against fascism is immensely important to society when its grip on our dreamers strangles the creativity out of our ambition, finally snuffing out all progress as we know it, and as if implanting a tombstone, parks institutions in its place.

Whenever she opened a scientific book and saw whole paragraphs of incomprehensible words and symbols, she felt a sense of wonder at the great territories of learning that lay beyond her - the sum of so many noble and purposive attempts to make objective sense of the world.

In this night too, in this night of his mortal eyes into which he was now descending, love and danger were again waiting...a murmur of glory and hexameters, of men defending a temple the gods will not save, and of black vessels searching the sea for a beloved isle;the murmor of the Odysseys and Iliads it was his destiny to sing and leave echoing concavely in the memory of man.These things we know, but not those he felt descending into the last shade of all.

Listen. All great literature is about what a bummer it is to be a human being.