#liter

What does infinity mean to you? Are you not infinity and yourself? ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #infinity #literature #literature-quotes #poetry

[N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I don't care what the story is about or what may be the momentary craze for books that appear to have been hammered out by the village blacksmith in a state of intoxication; the minute you get the easy touch of the real craftsman with centuries of civilisation behind him, you get literature. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#craft #craftsmanship #creative-process #crudeness #culture

Deliver thunder, God If you choose not to talk. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #deliver #god #literature #literature-quotes

The eyesight for an eagle is what thought is to a man. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#eagle #eagles #eyesight #literature #literature-quotes

Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #end #endless #eternity #existence

Universe is the Sun watching its own self. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#literature #literature-quotes #philosophy #poetry #poetry-quotes

Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#languages #literature #literature-quotes #masters #philosophy

A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #escape #lie #lies #literature

We live in a Jesus haunted culture that is Biblically illiterate, and so unfortunately at this point in time, almost anything can pass for knowledge of the historical Jesus from notions that he was a a Cynic sage to ideas that he was a Gnostic guru to fantasies that he didn't exist, to Dan Browne's Jesus of hysterical (rather than historical) fiction. ↗

— Ben Witherington III

#jesus #historical-fiction

What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons; we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless 'Why?' and 'What next?' ("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy") ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#fearsome #literaturem #ultimate #writing #art