Pastoral Resources

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

All literature is gossip.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

I've always said that music is like literature.

Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger.

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.

Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.

Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.

There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.

In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.

Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.

Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.

Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.

In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply that it would be well for philosophy if it ceased to aim at scientific rigor.