4,370 Quotes About Literature

Down the road the voice of a child called out the adhan from the megaphone of a mosque’s citadel, and even with the static and the echo and the cracking of his pitch, it sounded so sweet in the fading light, with the fields darkening, and the crickets chirping their songs.

No kind of writing lodges itself so deeply in our memory, echoing there for the rest of our lives, as the books that we met in our childhood.

It is impossible to describe any person as they actually are. The moment you talk about a person, even mention their name, you trivialize them.

I can see myself before myself—A being through dark scenery.

I do not just want you at your best.I almost do not carewhere your Happiness lives,but please,let me visit your pain? Take me to the placewhere your sadness goes,and show me the tragedythat no one knows.

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attract those who look askance at capitalist notions of utility. The idea of doing something purely for the delight of it has always rattled the grey-bearded guardians of the state. Sheer pointlessness has always been a deeply subversive affair.

at home the bookshelves connected heaven and earth.

..Breaking yet budding,dying yet living - standingamongst ruins and rage,reaching for possibilitiesplaying hard to get.