4,370 Quotes About Literature

I visited many places, Some of them quite Exotic and far away, But I always returned to myself.

Wherever I go, I meet myself.

The writer who develops a beautiful style, but has nothing to say, represents a kind of arrested esthetic development; he is like a pianist who acquires a brilliant technique by playing finger-exercises, but never gives a concert.

The same imagination which has produced great works of science and literature has also produced all the absurdities of mythology and religion.

When the star dies, Its eye closes; tired of watching, It flies back to its first bright dream.

Dreams are our only geography—our native land.

The world cannot be translated; It can only be dreamed of and touched.

He thought of trying to explain something he had recently noticed about himself: that if anyone insulted him, or one of his friends, he didn't really mind--or not much, anyway. Whereas if anyone insulted a novel, a story, a poem that he loved, something visceral and volcanic occurred within him. He wasn't sure what this might mean--except perhaps that he had got life and art mixed up, back to front, upside down.

Trying to live up to yourself is the most trying thing.