Folk Literature

Famous quotes containing the words folk and/or literature:

“In the past, the English tried to impose a system wherever they went. They destroyed the nation’s culture and one of the by- products of their systemisation was that they destroyed their own folk culture.”
—Martin Carthy (b. 1941)

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