4,370 Quotes About Literature



  • Author Gao Xingjian
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    Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has no duty to the masses or society, and ethical or moral pronouncements added by busybody critics are of no concern to the writer.

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  • Author Edward Young
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    There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

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