No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.
For me, words are just words, nothing else
Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the affairs of state.
Ideas are to literature what light is to painting.
False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.
Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.
How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.
There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there are quite as many small ones - competences; while, on the other hand, it is not so much of a lottery.
My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.
Literature exists because the world isn't enough.
It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.
Language gradually varies, and with it fade away the writings of authors who have flourished their allotted time; otherwise, the creative powers of genius would overstock the world, and the mind would be completely bewildered in the endless mazes of literature.
We are so very 'umble.
The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers.
Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.
Virtue is the truest nobility.
It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.