Literary theory Quotes

"The more one is conscious of the author’s presence, the greater the distance between the reader and the story"

"Books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told."

"There is no outside-text"

"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion"

"It is my aim, and every poet's, to have each work as a whole and each separate paragraph too, to be the whole story, with beginning, middle, climax, and end."

"All great literature either founds a genre or dissolves one"