Literature Quotes

"I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, which melts like kisses from a female mouth."

"To write is to discover that you are not alone."

"There is a music in the words of the poets that heals the soul."

"Books are a quieter type of magic."

"Men are poets when they speak of the future."

"I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that prose is words in their best order; poetry is the best words in the best order."

"The difference between prose and poetry is not whether we write in verse or prose, but whether we speak from our own nature."

"The pen is mightier than the sword in shaping the hearts of men."

"Literature is the conversation across centuries with the greatest minds."

"The road to all literature is through the romance of nature."

"The greatest poets write about the most common experiences."

"I am convinced more and more day by day that fine writing is next to fine doing."

"My pen is my sword and my words my shield."

"What is poetry but the enlargement of the faculties?"

"The greatest poem is the one lived, not the one written."

"Literature is the immortality of thought."

"Literature preserves the truths that time seeks to erase."

"Words are things; a small drop of ink makes thousands think."

"The Canterbury Tales teach us about human nature in all its forms."

"The tale is at an end."

"The pen is mightier than the sword."

"Tell me what you read and I'll tell you what you are."

"Who is a maker of sentences should be touched not only in his brain, but in his heart also."

"The decline of literature indicates the decline of the nation."

"Destiny and history are decided not by armies but by the poets."

"The pen is mightier than the sword."

"I sing of arms and the man who first came forth from Troy's boundaries to Italy and the Lavinian shores."

"Sing, O Goddess, of the wrath of Achilles."

"The pen is mightier than the sword."

"Fame grows as the poet's work grows."