4,370 Quotes About Literature

When we paint, we paint with truth -and when live, we live without it;so we dream and yet not sleepfor sleep takes our dreams;

Words are instruments, they are tools that, in their different ways, are as effective as any sharp edge or violate chemical. They are, like coins, items of great value, but they represent a currency that, well spent, returns ever greater riches.

The embrace of present and past time, in which English antiquarianism becomes a form of alchemy, engenders a strange timelessness. It is as if the little bird which flew through the Anglo-Saxon banqueting hall, in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, gained the outer air and became the lark ascending in Vaughan Williams's orchestral setting. The unbroken chain is that of English music itself.

Writing poetry is a state of free float

Under the purple sky,fulgent stars,in subdued moonlight,surrounded by blinding darkness,on dewed grass,bare feet,I'll kiss you,I'll kiss you, to the testimony ofstars and skies.I'll kiss you as such that love will erectfrom the soil,and coil around us,and our clays would become one.

Metaphors: knowledge existing in several states and without contradiction

Every language has a grammar, a set of rules that govern usage and meaning, and literary language is no different. It’s all more or less arbitrary of course, just like language itself.

I was working in silence seeking no appreciation or respect from any one. And it is always the silence from which great literature is born.

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