Literature Quotes

O love, O fire! once he drewWith one long kiss my whole soul throughMy lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.

Alfred Tennyson

One is not quite certain that creativeness in the arts, literature, and science functions best in an environment of absolute freedom. Chances are that a relatively mild tyranny stimulates creativeness.

Eric Hoffer

I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts.

Mike Tyson

Fly without wings; Dream with open eyes; See in darkness.

Dejan Stojanovic

Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity.

Dejan Stojanovic

Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from the sciences to music to writing to literature.

Michael P. Anderson

There is always the question why And there is always life, Which doesn't need an answer.

Dejan Stojanovic

He thought others were small; that was his greatness.

Dejan Stojanovic

A great piece of literature does not try to coerce you to believe it or agree with it. A great piece of literature simply is. It is a vehicle of truth, but it is not a blueprint, and we tend to confuse the two.

Madeleine L'Engle

The most complicated skill is to be simple.

Dejan Stojanovic

Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. Lord Polonius: What is the matter, my lord? Hamlet: Between who? Lord Polonius: I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.

William Shakespeare

Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Is there anything more plausible than a second hand? And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time's malleability. Some emotions speed it up, others slow it down; occasionally, it seems to go missing--until the eventual point when it really does go missing, never to return.

Julian Barnes

It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them.

Dejan Stojanovic

Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.

Lynn Swann

Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.

Dejan Stojanovic

Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing.

Dejan Stojanovic

Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?

Dejan Stojanovic

To cut and tighten sentences is the secret of mastery.

Dejan Stojanovic

I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.

Jacob Bronowski