Destiny/literature

Famous quotes containing the words destiny and/or literature:

“Bright lameness from my beautiful disease,
You have your destiny to chip and eat.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

“Scholarship cannot do without literature.... It needs literature to float it, to set it current, to authenticate it to all the race, to get it out of closets and into the brains of men who stir abroad.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)