4,370 Quotes About Literature

It is not a wholly medieval problem. It is quite a contemporary one: feminine power when directed at other women has historically been wielded in what has been described as a “masculine” manner.

Autonomy, newness, difference, authority, absolute power: these are the major themes and concerns of American literature, and each one is made possible, shaped, and activated by a complex awareness and use of a constituted Africanism that, deployed as rawness and savagery, provided the staging ground and arena for the elaboration of that quintessential American identity.

Literature is falling away.

في هزيع الليل الأخير لإحدى ليالي الحنين,احتجب نور الوجه الجميل في قلب ديمة سكوب فصار ذاك النور يسيل قطرات من غيث طاهر يستقبل نظراتي كلما حملقت في الأفق فيرويها .

أمي ..أقحوانة و خزامى تزين ربى الوفاء ..حين دقّت يد الجمال أجراس معابد العطاء ..

We create words, words create wonders.

I am someone who has spent his adult life on the periphery of literature in the way that a small animal will remain just beyond the glow of the campfire, observing the strange doings of the human creatures settling in for the night.

Literature's world is a concrete human world of immediate experience. The poet uses images and objects and sensations much more than he uses abstract ideas; the novelist is concerned with telling stories, not with working out arguments.

Every language has a grammar, a set of rules that govern usage and meaning, and literally language is no different.