Quotes about Literature

The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical...

#Literature

I this day was spectator of the most magnificent Triumph that certainly ever floted on...

#History, #Literature, #Society

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the...

#Art, #Artists, #Bizarre

Literature is the question minus the answer.

#Literature

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not...

#Literature

Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times

#Investment, #Literature

Literature bores me, especially great literature

#Literature

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend...

#Criticism, #Literature, #Writers

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

#Literature, #Nations

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

#Language, #Literature, #Writing

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant...

#Art, #Literature

No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which...

#Literature