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Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.
- Edward Dahlberg
Quotes Earth Quotes Literature Quotes
Published on: January 19, 2025 09:15 PM
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
- Wallace Stevens
Quotes Nothing Quotes American Quotes English Quotes Americans Quotes Literature Quotes Sensibility Quotes
Published on: January 19, 2025 03:15 PM
Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature.
- Rita Dove
Quotes Words Quotes Being Quotes Literature Quotes Order Quotes Oppression Quotes Adversity Quotes
Published on: January 19, 2025 06:27 AM
Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.
- David Amram
Quotes World Quotes Authority Quotes Writing Quotes Knowledge Quotes Literature Quotes Politics Quotes
Published on: January 18, 2025 04:46 PM
I've always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to Paris for part of one year and ended up staying there.
- Jim Jarmusch
Quotes Literature Quotes Paris Quotes
Published on: January 16, 2025 07:29 AM
Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
- Iris Murdoch
Quotes Emotions Quotes Literature Quotes
Published on: January 16, 2025 12:17 AM
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
- Stephen Leacock
Quotes Music Quotes Literature Quotes Class Quotes Medicine Quotes
Published on: January 14, 2025 10:31 PM
Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things.
- Mary MacLane
Quotes World Quotes Literature Quotes
Published on: January 13, 2025 05:39 PM
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
- Helen Keller
Quotes Talk Quotes Friends Quotes Literature Quotes Senses Quotes Utopia Quotes Embarrassment Quotes
Published on: January 13, 2025 12:46 AM
Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.
- Andrzej Wajda
Quotes Want Quotes Past Quotes Language Quotes Literature Quotes
Published on: January 12, 2025 02:51 PM
All literature is gossip.
- Truman Capote
Quotes Literature Quotes Gossip Quotes
Published on: January 12, 2025 05:05 AM
This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.
- Ryszard Kapuscinski
Quotes Literature Quotes Relationship Quotes Possession Quotes
Published on: January 9, 2025 01:00 PM
There is a broad cultural current that conveys the idea that a film is like a football team, it represents a nation, it is illustrated literature, filmed radio. These are outdated concepts, totally out of touch with today's realities.
- Jean-Jacques Annaud
Quotes Film Quotes Today Quotes Idea Quotes Nation Quotes Literature Quotes
Published on: January 9, 2025 12:12 PM
Well, you sort of get out of the pool room, you get out of the Marine Corps, you get out and read some literature, you become involved with people who also want to know and are ready to share some ideas about literature and thoughts, and it becomes nourished that way.
- Harvey Keitel
Quotes Want Quotes People Quotes Ideas Quotes Literature Quotes Thoughts Quotes
Published on: January 8, 2025 07:58 AM
Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.
- Thomas Mann
Quotes Instinct Quotes Literature Quotes Suffering Quotes
Published on: January 5, 2025 05:34 PM
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