Literature Quotes - Page 57

Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.

And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

We will not have peace by afterthought.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits.

The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.

But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it.

In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect.

There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity.

To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.

To know well the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to know well the nature of princes one must be of the people.

Hence it comes that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

Also, I've already won all the awards.

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

With renunciation life begins.

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.

Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

Four is a powerful figure in literature and physical form

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.

There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.

Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.

Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.