Arndt Von Bohlen Und Halbach - Literature

Famous quotes containing the word literature:

“If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

“Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching. The simplest utterances are worthiest to be written, yet are they so cheap, and so things of course, that, in the infinite riches of the soul, it is like gathering a few pebbles off the ground, or bottling a little air in a phial, when the whole earth and the whole atmosphere are ours.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)