Literature Quotes

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"Language is the dress of thought; therefore every word should be put on with care."
Samuel Johnson
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"Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth."
Samuel Johnson
"The stage reflects the nature of mankind."
Aphra Behn
"The pen is mightier than the sword in matters of the spirit."
Aphra Behn
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"Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour."
William Blake
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"The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true Poet."
William Blake
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"Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"What is poetry but the truth of things in their essence?"
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"The poet is the servant of all things, but the master of his own art."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"Books are a triumphal arch by which we enter into a higher world."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"Some praise me because I am a woman who dares venture into the fields of literature."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"The function of criticism is to make us see the object as in itself it really is."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"To be a poet is to have a soul so fine that nothing can touch it without wounding."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Literature is the mirror in which humanity sees itself."
Christina Rossetti
"Literature preserves the voices of those who came before us."
Christina Rossetti
"With this same key Shakespeare unlocked his heart."
Robert Browning
"The pen is mightier than the sword."
Robert Browning
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"Literature is the most beautiful of all the arts."
Knut Hamsun
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"I write to understand as much as to be understood."
Knut Hamsun
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"Literature is the voice of the soul."
Johan Christian Andersen
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"A sonnet is a moment's monument."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
"Literature is the mirror of society."
Robert Browning
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"The only impeccable writers are those that never wrote."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"I love to hear the poets read their verses aloud."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"To write is to fight against silence."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"The pen is mightier than the sword."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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"Literature preserves the human spirit across time."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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"Every person has a story waiting to be told."
Johan Christian Andersen
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"Literature preserves the human experience."
Johan Christian Andersen
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"The best stories emerge from the deepest suffering"
Knut Hamsun