Literature Quotes
The crown of literature is poetry.
William Somerset Maugham
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others
Virginia Woolf
Literature is the Thought of thinking Souls.
Thomas Carlyle
Never pursue literature as a trade.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
Thornton Wilder
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose
Margaret Atwood
It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression
Alfred North Whitehead
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once
Cyril Connolly
Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.
William Shakespeare
Literature is the thought of thinking Souls.
Thomas Carlyle
Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre.
Vanna Bonta
Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.
John Cheever
Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the authors own conscience.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
