Great literature makes a great life.
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.
Great language and great literature do not survive long without each other
...what distinguishes pulp fiction from great literature is how emphatically the work challenges us to interpret it.
In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.
life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
In the same period, Polish literature also underwent some significant changes. From social-political literature, which had a great tradition and strong motivation to be that way, Polish literature changed its focus to a psychological rather than a so...
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent.
If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.
Reading a great work of literature can truly be likened to having a conversation with a great mind.
I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great.
I define influence simply as literary love, tempered by defense. The defenses vary from poet to poet. But the overwhelming presence of love is vital to understanding how great literature works.
Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.
Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.
Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling.
It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.
Our literature is in great shape.
Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to develop into full human beings.
