4,370 Quotes About Literature

Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.

Because of the earth’s roundness, Genghis Khan, in the fever of possession and destruction, hastened his own overthrow by invading lands that he had already razed and conquered. Not only is it impossible to know from where we come, but also from whom we come: nothing in common, in any case, with those who pass for being the “authors of our days” – which days? Better to invent a genealogy based on pure whim and the leanings of our hearts, but what if they don’t agree?

..home INSIDE is home shining brightly above all homes in physical world.

Energy manipulation took place completely in mind,same way believing in telepathy caused telepathic abilities to grow STRONGER.

Sleeping beauty awoke at the kiss of a scientist and expired at the fatal puncture of his syringe.

God produced great writing, a matter of first importance to a man like Lincoln, ever impressed with the nature of cause and forces.

You can't memorize poetry and stay a fake. Sooner or later, you start to understand what these poets are saying, and it makes you feel life has something quite special, with certain layers of meaning to it.

No se piensa en nada; las horas pasan. Uno se pasea inmovil por paises que cree ver, y su pensamiento, enlazandose a la ficcion, se recrea en los detalles o sigue el hilo de las aventuras. Se identifica con los personajes; parece que somos nosotros mismos los que participamos bajo sus pieles.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.