4,370 Quotes About Literature

Literature endures like the universal spirit,And its breath becomes a part of the vitals of all men.

Your words... I hold them deeplike ancient skinshold wrinkles.

If the ability to read carries the average man no higher than the gossip of his neighbours, if he asks nothing more nourishing out of books and the theatre than he gets hanging about the store, the bar and the street-corner, then culture is bound to be dragged down to him instead of his being lifted up by culture.

Words come to me like equations came to Ramanujan and music came to Mozart.

Just as Mozart could hear an entire symphony in his head, just as Tesla could envision an invention before it's invented, I dance with words through infinity.

If I may paraphrase Hobbes's well-known aphorism, I would say that 'books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

Literature needs freedom to thrive," she said as she wagged her head. "We didn't have much of that to expand and enlarge Armenianliterature, did we?

Literature needs freedom to thrive," she said as she wagged her head. "We didn't have much of that to expand and enlarge Armenian literature, did we?

This reasoning is based on the wishful thinking that genius can only be earned through education and hard work. It denies the time-proven truth that genius can strike like a random bolt of lightning, at any time in any place, even in a humble glover's home in a small town in Elizabethan England.