#literature

Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#felt #finished #had #hard #i

What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature. ↗

— Henry Miller

#false #literature #open #say #street

There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only Christopher Columbus has more statues than he worldwide. ↗

— Len G. Murray

#burns #christopher #columbus #discount #even

A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses. ↗

— Robert Musil

#average #contemporaries #deep #fine #geniuses

It was like hiking into a Hemingway story; everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext. ↗

— Leslie What

#hermit #literature #simile #wilderness #funny

A great speech is literature. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

#literature #speech

He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#how #literature #me #mentor #personal

Well, the oil, the oil spot, if you will, is a, is a term in counterinsurgency literature that connotes a peaceful area, secure area. So what you're trying to do is to always extend that, to push that out. ↗

— David Petraeus

#area #counterinsurgency #extend #literature #oil

If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#decays #declines #literature #nation

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#degree #great #great literature #language #literature