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)
“The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.”
—Lionel Trilling (1905–1975)