Joy/literature

Famous quotes containing the words joy and/or literature:

“There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away,”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.... the essay must be pure—pure like water or pure like wine, but pure from dullness, deadness, and deposits of extraneous matter.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)