Secrets/literature

Famous quotes containing the words secrets and/or literature:

“I have old women’s secrets now
That had those of the young;
Madge tells me what I dared not think
When my blood was strong....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“[The] attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and ... often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)