literature-quotes

Since nothing is absolute There is no absolute silence, Only an appearance Of temporary peace.

What we call life is only talk of nature.

Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.

History will be erased in the universal purgatory.

Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.

For a game, you don__ need a teacher.

Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters.

It__ not easy to write a poem about a poem.

School children, who have enjoyed reading a romance or a detective thriller or a novel about terror and conquest, make the invariable mistake of studying literature in the college. They make the mistake of learning theory in place of art; they acquire impediments in their own enjoyment of the books by allowing a set of theories to govern their own reading.

Literature is map of humanity, the documenter of civilization. Books introduce us to the landscape of the greatest minds of every century.

Literature provides a person with a conceptual framework for recognizing human beings recurrent challenges in life. Reading good literature deepens a person__ understanding of the variable ways that somebody might respond to circumstances in their world, thereby adding to their own potential intellectual and spiritual depth and expands their understanding of the nuances of their own personal behavior.

We all act as independent learners in charge of designing our autodidactic curricula. Reading the books written by the prophetic genius of history including the literary masterpieces and philosophical treatises awakens the mind. Reading can act as a gateway drug leading to writing and expansion of a personal state of conscious awareness.

The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.

A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.

There is no revelation in my words. I am merely stating what others have forgotten to write down.

We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery.

From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.

In trying to be perfect, He perfected the art of anonymity, Became imperceptible And arrived nowhere from nowhere.