Threshold/literature

Famous quotes containing the words threshold and/or literature:

“On the threshold of old age.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

“Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.”
—James Connolly (1870–1916)