Literature Quotes - Page 131

This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.

I don't see why escapist literature shouldn't also be a work of art.

The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.

The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.

Painting taught literature to describe.

If you're going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it.

Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic.

In literature, questions of fact or truth are subordinated to the primary literary aims of producing a structure of words for its own sake, and the sign-values of symbols are subordinated to their importance as a structure of interconnected motifs.

Horace, in a particularly boastful mood, once said his verse would last as long as the vestal virgins kept going up the Capitoline Hill to worship at the temple of Jupiter. But Horace's poetry has lasted longer than Jupiter's religion, and Jupiter himself has only survived because he disappeared into literature.

No human society is too primitive to have some kind of literature. The only thing is that primitive literature hasn't yet become distinguished from other aspects of life: it's still embedded in religion, magic and social ceremonies.

Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.

To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like

I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society.

Literature is conscious mythology: as society develops, its mythical stories become structural principles of story-telling, its mythical concepts, sun-gods and the like, become habits of metaphoric thought. In a fully mature literary tradition the writerenters intoa structure of traditional stories and images.

A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.

Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off.

Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.

It's easy to get a loan unless you need it.

Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on how to fix them.

People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again.

Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.

One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.

Movies are more likely than literature to reach deep feelings in people.

I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.

In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.