Joy/literature

Famous quotes containing the words joy and/or literature:

“How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch.”
—P.D. (Phyllis Dorothy)