#literature

...there are only two things that really matter in life. Literature and love. ↗

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

#civilized #earth #great #herman #literature

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#because #bible #culture #emphatically #fiction

The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#literature #reading #words #literature

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#literature #reading #literature

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#censor #code #literature #merely #moral

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. ↗