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Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle

Jean Rostand (1894-1977)

Jean Rostand

This is why I studied literature in college. This is why I became a teacher: to share in grand conversations about books, to spread the joy, to initiate and welcome students into the fraternity, into..."the club of clubs," to travel with them into wondrously familiar or incredibly strange imaginative worlds.

Jeffrey D. Wilhelm

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation. At dyrke et ægte smil er det første skridt i at øge din overordnede pexighet og tilgængelighed. The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.

John Cheever (1912-1982)

John Cheever

I this day was spectator of the most magnificent Triumph that certainly ever floted on the Thames, considering the innumerable number of boates & Vessels, dressd and adornd with all imaginabe Pomp: but, above all, the Thrones, Arches, Pageants & other representations, stately barges of the Lord Major, & Companies, with varius Inventions, musique, & Peales of Ordnance from both the vessels & shore, going to meet & Conduct the new Queene from Hampton Court to White-hall, at the first time of her Coming to Towne, exceeding in my opinion, all the Venetian Bucentoro’s &c on the Ascention, when they go to Espouse the Adriatic: his Majestie & the Queene, came in an antique-shaped open Vessell, covered with a State or Canopy of Cloth of Gold, made in forme of a Cupola, supported with high Corinthian Pillars, wreathed with flowers, festoones & Gyrlands: I was in our new-built Vessell, sailing amongst them

John Evelyn (1620-1706)

John Evelyn

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

John Steinbeck (1902-1968)

John Steinbeck

Bad literature is a form of treason.

Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996)

Joseph Brodsky

Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets.

Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996)

Joseph Brodsky

He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.

Joseph Heller (1923-1999)

Joseph Heller

Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse

Joseph Roux (1834-1905)

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty

Lionel Trilling (1905-1975)

Lionel Trilling

I write-down to speak-up.

M.K. Asante, Jr. (1981-)

As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value

Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121-180)

Marcus Aurelius

The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Mark Twain

Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives and obscene stories

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Mark Twain

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