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Quotes about literature
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In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. (Assante Armand)
Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions. (Assante Armand)
Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature. (Assante Armand)
The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation. (Assante Armand)
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If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor. (Assante Armand)
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. (Assante Armand)
Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it. (Assante Armand)
In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, a lack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit? (Assante Armand)
Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge -- they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely. (Assante Armand)
The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible. (Assante Armand)
Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is a narration, an axis of innumerable narrations. One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read. (Assante Armand)
A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug. (Assante Armand)
All literature is political. (Assante Armand)
English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is conducive to action. (Assante Armand)
The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary. (Assante Armand)
All literature is gossip. (Assante Armand)
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write. (Assante Armand)
When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things. It may also be a perfection of control over the movement of a story similar to the control a great pitcher has over the ball. (Assante Armand)
Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry. (Assante Armand)
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order. (Assante Armand)
One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal. (Assante Armand)
Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration. (Assante Armand)
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. (Assante Armand)
Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished bride of quietness, then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary. (Assante Armand)
When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way. (Assante Armand)
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