4,370 Quotes About Literature

A literatura, seja como for, também é uma espécie de aproximação, a busca de uma verdade que não se alcança.

Popular versurs literary—a false divide?

Popular versus literary—a false divide?

In a myriad of ways you tell one truth.

And did the distress I was feeling derive from some internal sickness of the soul, or was it imposed on me by the sickness of society? That someone besides me had suffered from these ambiguities and had seen light on their far side... that I could find company and consolation and hope in an object pulled almost at random from a bookshelf—felt akin to an instance of religious grace.

Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast brass, iron and marble.

Plato laments the decline of the oral tradition and the atrophy of memory which writing induces, I at the other end of the Age of the Written Word am impressed by the sturdiness and reliability of words on paper... The will to record indelibly, to set down stories in permanent words, seems to me akin to the conviction that we are larger than our biologies.

Words are the only things that last for ever.

The cultivation of literary pursuits forms the basis of all sciences, and in their perfection consist the reputation and prosperity of kingdoms.