Motto/literature

Famous quotes containing the words motto and/or literature:

“I always say, my motto is “Art for my sake.” If I want to write, I write—and if I don’t want to, I won’t. The difficulty is to find exactly the form one’s passion—work is produced by passion with me ... Mwants to take.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)

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