Quotes about literature
literature prophet historian
The historian is a prophet looking backward. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
literature definitions would-be
A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
literature prose
In true prose everything must be underlined.
literature fragments
Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.
literature feminine treated
Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
literature politics ethics
Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
literature spirit explosions
Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
literature language excellent
What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
literature want veils
Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.
literature shirts
Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts. Peter Bichsel
literature impossible
SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible. Piers Anthony
literature biographies fiction
The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science. Rachel Carson
literature turns
This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature. Julian Barnes
literature taste
Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society. Madame de Stael
literature poet priests
The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family. Gustave Flaubert
literature
Madame Bovary is myself.
literature innocence gullibility
The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life. Gilbert K. Chesterton
literature madness wit
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide. John Dryden
literature century made
More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature. John le Carre
literature antiquity unreliable
If one discards the Bible as being unreliable, then he must discard almost all literature of antiquity. Josh McDowell
literature growing revolution
There is a quiet revolution going on in the study of the Bible. At its center is a growing awareness that the Bible is a work of literature and that the methods of literary scholarship are a necessary part of any complete study of the Bible. Leland Ryken
literature clue preference
What we prefer to read is sort of like sexual preference, you like what you like. Most of the time you have no clue why. Laurell K. Hamilton
literature weary satisfied
I got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied. Langston Hughes
literature helping destruction
What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us... what good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction? Julio Cortazar
literature creation unusual
The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature.
literature affair
I don't like to meddle in my private affairs. Karl Kraus
literature consciousness psychologist
My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
literature stories kind
She had begun to read in the beginning as a protection from the frightening and unpleasant things. She continued because, apart from the story, literature brought with it a kind of gentility for which she craved. Patrick White
literature taught easier
Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why one is pleased. Beauty is harder to analyze than truth. Mortimer Adler
literature rational exertion
How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions? Mary Wollstonecraft
literature becoming caught
When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just in time to save me from becoming a mathematician. Mark Haddon
literature form treason
Bad literature is a form of treason. Joseph Brodsky
literature prophet destroyed
Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed. Niccolo Machiavelli