Literature Quotes

Edgar allan poe, from a letter to frederick w. thomas (february 14, 1849). - depend upon it, after all, thomas, literature is...
Literature... is the rediscovery of childhood.
Georges Bataille
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Helen Kelle
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Henry Mille
Gustave flaubert - the one way of tolerating existence is to lose...
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once.
Cyril Connolly
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Barbara Tuchman
Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
Lionel Trilling
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
G. K. Chesterton, Defendant (1901)
T. s. eliot - we know too much, and are convinced of too...