#literature

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form. ↗

— Thomas Mann

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Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture. ↗

— Juan Ramon Jimenez

#before #culture #grace #literature #poetry

I think any good literature, whether it's for children or for adults, will appeal to everybody. As far as children's literature goes, adults should be able to read it and enjoy it as much as a child would. ↗

— Amber Benson

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The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#heart #human #human heart #less #literature

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#forget #her #kinship #literature #philosophy

Reverence is fatal to literature. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#literature #reverence

The crown of literature is poetry. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#literature #poetry

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#deceiving #does #effect #executed #insincere

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#animate #instruct #literature #object