Joy/literature

Famous quotes containing the words joy and/or literature:

“It’s almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)

“Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching. The simplest utterances are worthiest to be written, yet are they so cheap, and so things of course, that, in the infinite riches of the soul, it is like gathering a few pebbles off the ground, or bottling a little air in a phial, when the whole earth and the whole atmosphere are ours.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)