Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov - Literature

Famous quotes containing the word literature:

“One thing that literature would be greatly the better for
Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and
metaphor.”
—Ogden Nash (1902–1971)

“In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and infinite quality in their esteem.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)