4,370 Quotes About Literature

They were both young men under thirty. Art is not so precocious as literature, and does not send quite so many early potatoes into the market, so that the age of thirty is considered young enough for a painter to have learnt his business sufficiently to be marketable from the picture-dealing point of view. ("The Phantom Model")

Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true—without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?

O perigo de penetrar apaixonadamente no mundo dos livros é o de nos tornarmos, nós próprios, no aglomerado de pequenos excertos literários.

It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.

Rebuilding is something that is practically difficult than starting over from nothing.

The poet is a faker / Who's so good at his act / He even fakes the pain / Of pain he feels in fact.

I think it will be better if we can live our life as if Christ is going to return today and plan our live as if it is hundred years off. Keep living, serving and most of all be prepared.

Overhyped books are the empty calories of the literary world.

La literatura te obliga a tutear a tus pensamientos y a descubrir si son realmente tuyos.