Literature Quotes

"Literature is the voice of the human spirit."

"The writer must earn money in order to live and write, but he must not live and write in order to earn money."

"The pen is the tongue of the mind."

"Literature preserves the moral wisdom of generations."

"Literature demonstrates truths that facts alone cannot convey."

"Literature is the mirror in which humanity sees its own image."

"Literature preserves the voices of the dead and speaks to the unborn."

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book."

"A stanza should have a clean, chaste, and severe beauty, like a lonely temple in a distant landscape."

"Give me a library and I shall ask for nothing more."

"The most offensive book is the one you're forced to read in school"

"Literature preserves the moral achievements and aspirations of human civilization."

"Great literature preserves the wisdom of feeling that pure intellect might overlook."

"Literature reveals what politics conceals."

"In literature, we find the full spectrum of human experience and possibility."

"Literature represents the development of human consciousness."

"Tragedy teaches us that the good and the evil are not wholly separate."

"Bad literature is a great deal more dangerous to civilization than mere corruption."

"Poetry is the greatest mirror of a nation and of the human soul."

"Literature reflects the contradictions of its age."

"Literature is the expression of human experience through language."

"The greatest literature expresses universal human truths."

"Tragedy reveals the necessity of fate and the power of will."

"Poetry is the highest form of symbolic expression."

"Literature reveals the human soul in all its complexity and contradiction."

"Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the margin, poetry is when some of them fall short of it."

"Genuine tragedy is rare in the modern world."

"There is something laughable about the sight of authors who write books for people they do not know."

"The German ideology can only teach a language of suffering."

"Poetry is a higher truth than history."