Quotes About Great Works Of Literature

#1. I am especially indebted to a 10th grade English teacher who encouraged me to read great works of literature.

Samuel Alito

#2. All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.

Charles J. Shields

#3. As with all great works of literature, 'Of Mice and Men' moves with the inexorability of a huge river, and it pours itself, exhausts itself, in the sea of our unconscious. Having read it, we carry the book inside us forever.

Jay Parini

#4. Our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.

Helen Keller

#5. The American classicist Edith Hamilton once described the great works of literature, the strong fortresses of the spirit which men have built through the ages.

Edith Hamilton

#6. Reading great works of literature, discovering poetry, and listening to the best composers are all ways that we learn to love the Creator more.

Jennifer A. Marshall

#7. We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

B.F. Skinner

#8. Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.

Robert Benchley

#9. we ought to develop and practice a secular and human morality based on logical and scientific thinking.

Dr. Ramendra

#10. It is easy to romanticize the past than it is to anticipate for the unknown.

Catherine B. Alal

#11. The defense of the great works of Western literature can no longer be undertaken by central institutional power though it is hard to see how the normal operation of learned institutions, including recruitment can manage without them.

Harold Bloom

#12. Sometimes he spent hours together in the great libraries of Paris, those catacombs of departed authors, rummaging among their hoards of dusty and obsolete works in quest of food for his unhealthy appetite. He was, in a manner, a literary ghoul, feeding in the charnel-house of decayed literature.

Washington Irving

#13. In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write?

Gao Xingjian

#14. When a man begins to do that which is assigned to him, it becomes as if he is more endowed and favoured than his fellows.

Ogwo David Emenike

#15. Art begins where technique ends. There can be no real art development before one's technique is firmly established. And a great deal of technical work has to be done before the great works of violin literature, the sonatas and concertos, may be approached.

Leopold Auer

#16. Study the Past to Understand Today

Cynthia Belmer

#17. Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.

John Herschel

#18. For my part, I wish, with Mr. Howells, that the literature of the past might be purged of all that is ugly and barbarous in it, although I should object as much as any one to having these great works weakened or falsified.

Helen Keller

#19. When I left Barcelona, staying in Spain was an important factor in my decision to join Madrid. I did not have to change country or learn a new language, adopt a different sort of lifestyle, and so on.

Luis Figo

#20. Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.

Gilbert Murray

#21. When I was a kid, we didn't eat in restaurants much, but a good report card meant my sister or I could choose anyplace in town for a dinner out, and I always picked Benny's, a dive bar near the train station, because they had the best nachos around.

Rosecrans Baldwin

#22. But mostly I think of the things I didn't do.

Mary Kubica

#23. I'm leaving on a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again

John Denver

#24. I define influence simply as literary love, tempered by defense. The defenses vary from poet to poet. But the overwhelming presence of love is vital to understanding how great literature works.

Harold Bloom