Quotes about Literature
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
A Christian philosophy of literature begins with the same agenda of issues that any philosophy of literature addresses. Its distinctive feature is that it relates these issues to the Christian faith.
— Leland Ryken
The Old Testament is full of poetry, prophecies, chronicles, documentations, storytelling, fairytales.
— Amos Oz
Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?
— Virginia Woolf
Why then we should drop into poetry.
— Charles Dickens