Literature Quotes

"I guess there are never enough books" "The fox and the grapes" "The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time." "Poetry should be able to comprehend the earth" "I am not immortal. Faustus and I never signed a pact but I am damn close" "The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty" "A novel which does not give the utmost satisfaction to its author is an immoral novel" "Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person." "A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book" "The death of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world" "I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty" "With me, poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion" "Economic conditions, cultural avarice, and the exploitation of memory colonized the text before it was even set down" "The beauties and joys of medieval literature alone provide more than enough delight for those who can read" "Ye knowe ek that in forme of speeche is change"