Literature Quotes

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"Literature reflects the hopes and dreams of a people across generations."
Muhammad Morsi
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"The pen, when wielded with purpose, becomes mightier than armies."
Léopold Sédar Senghor
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"A nation without poets is a nation without vision."
Léopold Sédar Senghor
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"The poet speaks for those whose voices have been silenced."
Léopold Sédar Senghor
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"Literature preserves the stories that shape our identity."
Joseph Kabila
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"The written word has power to transform minds and hearts."
Muhammad Morsi
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"Literature is the conversation between generations."
Muhammad Morsi
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"Literature is the mirror in which we see the reflection of our own humanity."
Anwar Sadat
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"Literature speaks to the soul in ways that speeches never can."
Anwar Sadat
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"Literature is the voice of those whose voices have been silenced."
Léopold Sédar Senghor
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"Great literature speaks across centuries and cultures."
Léopold Sédar Senghor
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"Literature preserves the wisdom of ages and speaks to future generations."
Joseph Kabila
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"The pen and the sword must eventually learn to live together."
Laurent-Désiré Kabila
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"Literature preserves the voice of those history seeks to silence."
Laurent-Désiré Kabila
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"To understand literature is to understand the human soul."
Félix Houphouët-Boigny
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"Literature preserves the voice of those who would otherwise be forgotten."
Félix Houphouët-Boigny
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"To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture."
Léopold Sédar Senghor
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"Poetry is the marriage of passion and reason."
Léopold Sédar Senghor
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"The written word preserves what the spoken word loses."
Léopold Sédar Senghor
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"In literature, we find the mirror of human experience across all time."
Abdel Gamal Nasser
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"Literature preserves what history attempts to erase."
Anwar Sadat
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"Poetry is the dawn of knowledge about things."
Léopold Sédar Senghor
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"The intellectuals of our nation must serve the people, not merely themselves."
Abdel Gamal Nasser
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"The pen and the sword together are mightier than the sword alone."
Abdel Gamal Nasser
"The pen and the sword both shape the course of history."
Robert Mugabe
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"A nation's literature is the mirror in which it sees itself most clearly."
Félix Houphouët-Boigny
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"Literature gives voice to the voiceless."
Gnassingbé Eyadéma
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"Literature preserves the wisdom of ages."
Gnassingbé Eyadéma
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"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players."
Hastings Banda
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"Literature must glorify the state"
Francisco Macías Nguema