Quotations about Literature

“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”― F. Scott Fitzgerald


“Of all man’s instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other instruments are extensions of his body. The microscope, the telescope, are extensions of his sight; the telephone is the extension of his voice; then we have the plow and the sword, extensions of the arm. But the book is something else altogether: the book is an extension of memory and imagination.”   ― Jorge Luis Borges


 “Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom.”     ― Susan Sontag


"The planet does not need more 'successful people'. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds. It needs people to live well in their places. It needs people with moral courage willing to join the struggle to make the world habitable and humane and these qualities have little to do with success as our culture has defined it. "  –The Dalai Lama


“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. “ –Aristotle




“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world”  –Percy Bysshe Shelley


“Love is the subtlest force in the world.”  ― Gandhi


“People do not know how dangerous lovesongs can be... The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside. For them the earth is not an exploitable ground but the living mother.” –James Joyce, Ulysses

