Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

If the radiance of a thousand sunsWere to burst at once into the skyThat would be like the splendor of read more

If the radiance of a thousand sunsWere to burst at once into the skyThat would be like the splendor of the Mighty one --I am become Death,The shatterer of Worlds. - Bhagavad Gita.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

We cultivate literature on a little oat-meal.

We cultivate literature on a little oat-meal.

Yet ah! why should they know their fate?Since sorrow never comes too late,And happiness too swiftly flies.Thought would destroy their read more

Yet ah! why should they know their fate?Since sorrow never comes too late,And happiness too swiftly flies.Thought would destroy their paradise.No more; where ignorance is bliss,'Tis folly to be wise. - Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill.

You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill.