literature

let us start by picturing the Japan archipelago lying in the sea by the Chinese mainland. If its proximity allowed it to become part of the Sinosphere and acquire a written culture, its distance benefited the development of indigenous writing. The Dover Strait, separating England and France, is only 34 kilometers (21 miles) wide. A fine swimmer can swim across it. In contrast, the shortest distance between Japan and the Korean Peninsula is five or six times greater, and between Japan and the Chinese mainland, twenty-five times greater. The current, moreover, is deadly. . . . Japan's distance from China gave it political and cultural freedom and made possible the flowering of its own writing.

Literature has become merely a tool for culture studies.

Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you.Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged.

I immediately thought of the stars. Stars. Heavenly bodies formed by huge clouds of dust and gas bumpinginto one another, getting bigger, their gravity getting stronger. Once hot enough, nuclear fusion occurs. And then a star is formed.People are shaped in a similar way__ust like stars__xcessive amounts of dust and hot gas. And like stars, everyone__ life has a turning point prior to their big bang. The shit show before the creation. Y __now, one of those moments that can fuck you up.Cleopatra__ was when her father named her joint regent at fourteen. Fucked-up.Bruce Wayne__ when he witnessed his parents get murdered. Fucked-up.Charles Manson__ when his mother sold him for a pitcher of beer. Fucked. Up.Not to mention 'Helter Skelter.

Literature is life.

A Christian message or moral cannot redeem a text marred by shoddy workmanship.

You either see it or you don't

Literature tries to express the intricate inner beauties of life. Philosophy tries to explain the intricate inner beauties and conflicts of thoughts.

This reasoning is based on the wishful thinking that genius can only be earned through education and hard work. It denies the time-proven truth that genius can strike like a random bolt of lightning, at any time in any place, even in a humble glover's home in a small town in Elizabethan England.

We are all orbits of some sort,circling around the world we call our own, and literature...Literature is a compass;

Plato laments the decline of the oral tradition and the atrophy of memory which writing induces, I at the other end of the Age of the Written Word am impressed by the sturdiness and reliability of words on paper... The will to record indelibly, to set down stories in permanent words, seems to me akin to the conviction that we are larger than our biologies.

A union of literary and scientific cultures____here was not the dissociation of sensibility that was so soon to come_... Davy himself was writing (and sometimes publishing) a good deal of poetry at the time; his notebooks mix details of chemical experiments, poems, and philosophical reflections all together; and these did not seem to exist in separate compartments in his mind.

A chronic poet should always be an inveterate nature-lover.

A picture is worth a thousand words, but the way I paint I'm going to need to contact an editor. Even if I were to abstractly paint the phrase "I love you," it would be the visual equivalent of Joyce's Ulysses.-James Lee Schmidt and Jarod Kintz

A good novel is an indivisible sum: every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.

Shakespeare's work had a liberating influence.

Literature is an invitation to people to discover the world of others and the world of others is the best source to understand and to improve our own world!

I do not know whether music knows how to despair over music, or marble over marble, but literature is an art which knows how to prophesize the time in which it might have fallen silent, how to attack its own virtue, and how to fall in love with its own dissolution and court its own end.