Literature Quotes

Books change lives. Authors and readers reflect on the power of the written word.

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"To write is to bleed upon the page without shame."
Arthur Rimbaud
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"Every word is a spell that shapes the world."
Arthur Rimbaud
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"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."
Gérard de Nerval
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"Literature reveals the depths of human experience."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"Literature connects us across time and culture."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life"
Théophile Gautier
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"Literature opens new worlds within us"
Théophile Gautier
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"Literature is the most powerful medicine for the human soul."
Guy de Maupassant
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"Literature preserves the human experience."
Guy de Maupassant
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"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
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"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
"The highest destiny of the writer is to be an educator and a liberator of the human spirit."
Charles Baudelaire
"The poet is like the prince of the clouds; he dwells in storms but cannot walk on the earth."
Charles Baudelaire
"The greatest poets are those who express the universal in the particular."
Charles Baudelaire
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"The poet's task is to capture the uncapturable and give voice to the voiceless."
Paul Verlaine
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"In the mirror of poetry, we see not the world as it is, but as we feel it."
Paul Verlaine
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"We poets are merchants of dreams and peddlers of truth."
Gérard de Nerval
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"Words are insufficient to capture the depths of human feeling."
Gérard de Nerval
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"The poet speaks the language of the heart."
Gérard de Nerval
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"The poet is a translator of the ineffable."
Gérard de Nerval
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"The word is everything, and everything begins with a word."
Arthur Rimbaud
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"Literature is the conversation between souls across time."
Arthur Rimbaud
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"Literature preserves the voice of the human spirit."
Arthur Rimbaud
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"Literature is the mirror of the soul."
Paul Verlaine
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"Literature preserves the wisdom of ages for those yet unborn."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"Literature is the conversation across centuries."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
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"A literary work is a projection of the author's mind into the world"
Guy de Maupassant
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"The poet is a light and winged and holy thing."
George Sand
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"Only connect the prose and the passion."
George Sand