Quotes about Literature
The blue-collar is not supposed to read Horace, nor the farmer in his overalls Montale or Marvell. Nor, for that matter, is the politician expected to know by heart Gerard Manley Hopkins or Elizabeth Bishop. This is dumb as well as dangerous.
— Joseph Brodsky
It has been said that to write is to live forever. The man who said that is dead.
— Tina Fey
The booksellers are generous liberal-minded men.
— Samuel Johnson
Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.
— John Lennon
He does not write at all whose poems no man reads
— Marcus Aurelius
Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.
— Robert Frost
It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.
— Henry David Thoreau
Literary men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.
— John Keats
Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books.
— John Milton
I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother.
— Virginia Woolf
He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
— Victor Hugo
Being a systematic theologian allows me to indulge all my interests - in literature, film, art, music - by relating them all to God.
— Kevin Vanhoozer