Literature Quotes

"The most powerful words are often the simplest ones."

"The poet sees what others merely look at."

"In every person lives a story worthy of being told."

"Literature carries the voice of centuries into our hands."

"Literature preserves the wisdom we might otherwise forget."

"Literature is the autobiography of humanity."

"The pen is more dangerous than the sword because it lasts forever."

"The poet's task is to name what has no name."

"La literatura es el alma de la humanidad"

"La literatura inmortalizala sabiduría"

"The poet speaks to those who feel like strangers in their own world."

"The poet speaks to the exile within every human heart."

"Every writer creates his own precursors."

"A book is more than a verbal structure. It is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships."

"I have postulated a categorical principle: literature is not exhausted by morality."

"Every authentic poem is composed of many layers of meaning that can be stripped away only by a process of rereading."

"I think when you're talking about very good writers that they are fully conscious of the language they're using."

"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us."

"Literature is not obliged to teach us anything. It is obliged only to delight us."

"Literature is humanity speaking to itself across time."

"Literature preserves the humanity of past ages."

"La literatura nos permite vivir mil vidas en una sola."

"The pen is mightier than the sword, but only if the hand that wields it is wise"

"A writer without readers is like a voice crying in the wilderness; yet the wilderness itself may hear."

"La poesía es el alma del pensamiento."

"La literatura es la voz de los siglos."

"The poet's task is to give voice to the voiceless and color to the invisible."

"The poet must drink from the cup of sorrow to understand joy."

"The untold story is a ghost that haunts the living."

"La belleza de la poesía está en su verdad"