Famous quotes containing the words summertime and/or literature:
“This summertime must be forgot
MIt will be, if we would or not....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society, that does not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers—such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it is only a façade. Such literature loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as wastepaper instead of being read.”
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)