Quotes
Quotes about Literature
Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson,
The Bible is literature, not dogma.
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Romance is the poetry of literature.
Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.
Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilage of the underprivilaged, the exclusive club of the excluded masses.
Bad literature . . . is a form of treason.
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.
