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We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have read more
We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss, and the more wearing, continuous pain of frustration and failure; and have had moods of unlooked-for release and peace. They have known and watched in themselves and others.
Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child
Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
Literature is the immortality of speech.
Literature is the immortality of speech.
Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national read more
Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.
Art must take reality by surprise.
Art must take reality by surprise.
Reality is that part of the imagination we all agree on
Reality is that part of the imagination we all agree on
