4,370 Quotes About Literature

La lectura y el estudio de la literatura es como un entrenamiento para la escritura, si se hace con verdadera implicación.

Literature recounts history, explores knowledge, narrates universal themes of human existence, actives human conscience, enhances understanding of human motives, and explicates the nuances of human behavior.

A grande arte - na literatura, no teatro, na música, na pintura, no cinema - busca sempre recolher as expressões mais simbólicas, e não meramente acidentais, da experiência humana. Só a pequena arte, ou antiarte, se satisfaz com os produtos minguados do naturalismo mais rasteiro, comprazendo-se no ramerrão dos clichês repetitivos e previsíveis do homem tomado em sua dimensão menor.

It was all extremely symbolic; but then, if you choose to think so, nothing in this world is not symbolical.

Eén van de belangrijkste factoren voor geestelijke groei is immers tijd om na te denken en vrije tijd om uitdrukking te kunnen geven aan je gedachten.

I have read like a man on fire my whole life because the genius of English teachers touched me with the dazzling beauty of language.

In the flailing light they all looked sharp-edged and ethereal and divided by great distances

A library is more precious than a bank.

Scholarly acumen sharpens taste and judgment, but we must never mistake criticism for art. Intellectual analysis, however heady, will not nourish the soul.