Literature - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65543<![CDATA[For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64195<![CDATA[Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64022<![CDATA[I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63141<![CDATA[Draw a crazy picture,Write a nutty poem,Sing a mumble-gumble song,Whistle through your comb.Do a loony-goony dance'Cross the kitchen floor,Put something ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25402<![CDATA[Poetry is life distilled. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25403<![CDATA[The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25404<![CDATA[A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25388<![CDATA[This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25389<![CDATA[At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slain:Then, Prince! You should have fear'd, what ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25390<![CDATA[As I was going up the stairI met a man who wasn't thereHe wasn't there again todayI wish, I wish ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25391<![CDATA[I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25392<![CDATA[I would live to study, and not study to live. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25393<![CDATA[In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25394<![CDATA[The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25395<![CDATA[Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25396<![CDATA[Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25397<![CDATA[The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25398<![CDATA[Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25399<![CDATA[Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25400<![CDATA[There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25401<![CDATA[Vigny, more secretAs if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon."N.B.: Vigny refers to Comte de Vigny, who locked ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25383<![CDATA[A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25384<![CDATA[Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25385<![CDATA[A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25386<![CDATA[Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25387<![CDATA[Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25382<![CDATA[An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25374<![CDATA[The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25375<![CDATA[People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with bad. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25376<![CDATA[Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25377<![CDATA[The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25378<![CDATA[First he wrought, and afterward he taught. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25379<![CDATA['Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25380<![CDATA[Till last by Philip's farm I flowTo join the brimming river,For men may come and men may go,But I go ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25381<![CDATA[Nothing but blackness aboveAnd nothing that moves but the cars...God, if you wish for our love,Fling us a handful of ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25367<![CDATA[You, the Spirit of the Settlement! ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25368<![CDATA[If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25369<![CDATA[Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25370<![CDATA[You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25371<![CDATA[I dare say I am compelled, unconsciously compelled, now to write volume after volume, as in past years I was ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25372<![CDATA[The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25373<![CDATA[Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25361<![CDATA[Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25362<![CDATA[Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25363<![CDATA[Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25364<![CDATA[Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25365<![CDATA[Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25366<![CDATA[A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25358<![CDATA[All literature is political. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25359