Literature Quotes
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"Literature connects us across time to those who came before and after."George Eastman
"Literature and music speak the same language."Pierre Boulez
"Literature captures what music expresses."Pierre Boulez
"Literature preserves the human voice across time."Pierre Schaeffer
"Literature immortalizes the human experience."Pierre Schaeffer
"Literature and music speak the same eternal language."Karlheinz Stockhausen
"Literature and music are siblings in truth-telling."Karlheinz Stockhausen
"Literature and music are sisters exploring different aspects of human experience."Pierre Boulez
"There is the biggest gulf fixed between those who read and those who do not read."Andrew Carnegie
"Literature and music are two languages for the same truth."Karlheinz Stockhausen
"Literature preserves the collective human experience."Pauline Oliveros
"Literature and music are siblings separated at birth."Pierre Schaeffer
"And what is the purpose of writers? To say what happens."John Cage
"Literature and music are languages of the soul speaking truth"Karlheinz Stockhausen
"Literature and music both attempt to capture the ineffable qualities of human experience."Pauline Oliveros
"I believe in the power of storytelling."Laurie Anderson
"Language is a virus that programs our perception."Ryoji Ikeda
"Literature preserves what algorithms cannot calculate."Ryoji Ikeda
"Literature connects us across time and space."Jon Hopkins
"Literature shows us we're not alone in our struggles."Jon Hopkins
"I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry."John Cage
"Literature comes alive when read aloud with intention and presence."Pauline Oliveros
"Literature allows us to live a thousand lives."Yoko Ono
"Numbers describe the world; poetry interprets it."Ryoji Ikeda
"Literature captures what music leaves unsaid."Jon Hopkins
"Literature teaches us to see through the eyes of others."John Cage
"Literature, like music, creates meaning through the arrangement of symbols and sounds."Pauline Oliveros
"Stories are the way we make sense of our lives."Laurie Anderson
"The world needs more poets and fewer algorithms."Laurie Anderson
"Literature teaches us what music can only suggest"Jon Hopkins