Literature Quotes
A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found the words.
Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason.
In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.
Children and lunatics cut what the poet patiently spends his life in trying to untie.
If there is any one thing I love about writing more than the rest, it's that sudden flash of insight when you see how everything connects.
There are only about five really good stories, and writers just tell them over and over, with different characters.
If you can sing of nothing better
than your own joy or broken heart,
the world can do without your singing:
keep out, where you can have no part!
There are lots of things in life that are like riding a bike, but writing short stories isn't one of them. You can forget how.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn`t.