Quotes on Literature

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.

To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas

There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.

I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair.

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.

Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.