#literature

We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men. ↗

— George Ripley

#attachment #cause #devotion #discussion #down

Literature is news that stays news. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#news #stays

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. ↗

— E. B. White

#discouraging #i #know #literature #more

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature. ↗

— Emma Bonino

#degree #foreign #foreign languages #i #knowledge

I've always said that music is like literature. ↗

— Jose Carreras

#i #like #literature #music #said

Martial (the main character of LOCUS SOLUS) has a very interesting conception of literary beauty: the work must contain nothing real, no observations about the world or the mind, nothing but completely imaginary constructions. These are in themselves ideas from an extrahuman world. ↗

— Pierre Janet

#imagination #literature #mind #surrealism #writing

There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry. ↗

— Gyorgy Ligeti

#hungarian #literature #lyric #poetry #wonderful

I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#basketball #because #good #good student #happy

Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#literature #tidings #within #without #world

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#effect #literature #once #progress #social