Why literature, and not comic books?Why literature, and not Harlequin romances?
Why literature, and not science fiction?
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
~Ezra Pound
I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart. ~Richard Livingstone
When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.
~Clifton Fadiman
The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh delight.
~Samual McChord Crothers
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Excellent!!!!
ReplyDeleteAll literature wavers between nature and paradise and loves to mistake one for the other.
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There is no better way to inform and expand your mind on a regular basis then to get into the habit of reading good literature. You can get into the best minds that are now or that have ever been in the world.
~Stephen R. Covey
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.
~Elizabeth Drew
Excellent quotes!
ReplyDeleteI feel more meaning to classic literature. There is something about its timelessness that speaks to me, as if these long-dead authors are merely future ghostly selves wiser than me. Of all the classics, I find "Little Women" to be the best. Simply because it's a story of home to me. I just cry and cry through that book. Not because I'm sad, but I fall in love with the story and my own life over and over again ...
ReplyDeleteI love your line "fall in love with my own life" - beautiful!
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