4,370 Quotes About Literature

Life consists of books.

All the great treasures of life are hidden in a book.

I travel to know the life of great souls in the pages of a book.

We encounter great souls, who lived in historical times, in ancient books.

All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent

The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is not to describe nature, but to show you a world completely absorbed and possessed by the human mind.