Quotes about Literature
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
Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes. Homes that have a spirit of refinement and beauty will bless the lives of your children forever.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
- Aristotle