literature-quotes

You don__ know anything, but I know even less.

There can be no forced inspiration.

If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn__ write a single word, but that would be tragic.

I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible the world has written its own.

To write good poems is the secret of brevity.

The way contemporary literature is emerging, soon we can expect "Item poetry" in novels.

To be stories at all they must be a series of events: but it must be understood that this series - the plot, as we call it - is only really a new whereby to catch something else.

There was an inevitability about the road towards each other which encouraged meandering along the route.

Words have the power to make things true if they're said right.

It is interesting to ponder the fact that there is no real difference between what the Western Fascists wanted of literature and what the Bolsheviks want. Let me quote: "The personality of the artist should develop freely and without restraint. One thing, however, we demand: acknowledgement of our creed._ Thus spoke one of the big Nazis, Dr. Rosenberg, Minister of Culture in Hitler's Germany. Another quote: __very artist has the right to create freely; but we, Communists, must guide him according to plan._ Thus spoke Lenin. Both of these are textual quotations, and their similitude would have been highly diverting had not the whole thing been so very sad.

Literature is what's left standing after the storm.

Like Solzhenitsyn, I shall return, one bright dusk.

My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while. [_]. I'm two, and both keep their distance _ Siamese twins that aren't attached.-

Do you know what the worst thing about literature is? said Don Pancracio. I knew, but I pretended I didn't. What? I said. That you end up being friends with writers. And friendship, treasure though it may be, destroys your critical sense.

That was the Old Man__ favorite song. __low Ye Trumpet._ Them Negroes was far away from the doings on the plaza where the Old Man was to hang, way out from it. But they sang it loud and clear_.Blow ye trumpet blowBlow ye trumpet blow_.You could hear their voices for a long way, seemed like they lifted up and carried all the way into the sky, lingering in the air long afterward. And up above the church, high above it, a strange black-and-white bird circled __ound, looking for a tree to roost on, a bad tree, I expect, so he could alight upon it and get busy, so that it would someday fall and feed the others.

To influence a person is to give him one's own soul.

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path. I shall be a litterateur, at least, all my life; nor would I abandon the hopes which still lead me on for all the gold in California.__DGAR ALLAN POE TO FREDERICK WILLIAM THOMASFEBRUARY 14, 1849

Literature is like a subtle concoction of laboriously collected peripherals called words, intellect,thoughts,imagination,creativity and aestheticism brewed together to form a resplendent work of art.