4,370 Quotes About Literature

To keep the air fresh among words is the secret of verbal cleanliness.

To cut and tighten sentences is the secret of mastery.

To go against the grain is the secret of bravery.

To go where no one else has ever gone before is the secret of heroism.

He confided his deepest secret to you; be always wary of his secret.

The ocean, music, and literature are beloved in my life.

(Emerson's) aphorisms tend to be chicken soup for the academic soul or gobledygook of a man who prefers the sounds of words to their meanings.

We dreamt of a crappy apartment somewhereMaking love while we let the midnight airFlow through the open window, into our closed heartsLeft bitter from heartbreak and too much time apart

Every drop has it's own ego to be spherical