4,370 Quotes About Literature

Those critics who consider the authority of the ancients as models to be such, that in poetry, as in all the other arts, there can be no safety out of the pale of imitation, affirm, that as the nations in question have not followed this course, they have brought nothing but irregular works on the stage, which, though they may possess occasional passages of splendour and beauty, must yet, as a whole, be for ever reprobated as barbarous, and wanting in form.

And when they ask us what we're doing, you can say, We're remembering.

You blow like a wind,And I swing numb,Like an autumn leaf.

فوحده الخوف يصنع المعجزات!

وما العدالة سوى وسيلة تعذيب بين أيدي الطّغاة، أما المجتمع فمؤسسة موجعة وساحقة.

هم لايؤمنون بالمعجزات لأنهم سذَّج أو أغبياء. بل لأنهم يائسون. ولا رجاء لهم في غيرها

إن جوهر الحياة هو انتظار أن تتحقق المعجزة.

فقد حفظت عن أبي أن الإنسان يُعرّض حياته إلى الخطر كلّما اكتشف سرًا، ووحده السعيد هو من يجهل الأسرار.

Even if a poem is beautiful and memorable, it’s not like an advertising jingle or propaganda, which attempt to convince and control. Poems seek to confuse, disabuse, enlarge understanding, and make people ask questions and think for themselves.