Literature
- White Lies (for my mother), a 1992 non-fiction book by Liza Potvin
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Famous quotes containing the word literature:
“Poe gives the sense for the first time in America, that literature is serious, not a matter of courtesy but of truth.”
—William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)
“The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.”
—Lionel Trilling (1905–1975)
“If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)