4,370 Quotes About Literature

Any language with a literary tradition and extensive literacy will be affected by that literature.

But then we did not think ever of ourselves as poor. We did not accept it. We thought we were superior people and other people that we looked down on and rightly mistrusted were rich. It had never seemed strange to me to wear sweatshirts for underwear to keep warm. It only seemed odd to rich. We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.

The manner in which the exclusionary nature of the English language is used in knowledge prodution separates us as humans.

If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend.

Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you.Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged.

Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?

First time my master’s in English literature ever proved useful.

The truth! The truth!Some minds wrote about -and yet - no truth;So I dared to write -but still there was no truth;So I call on truth itself,for it is knownand yet does not write;

When we paint, we paint with truth -and when live, we live without;so we dream and yet not sleepfor sleep takes our dreamsand does not trade it with doubt.