Literature Quotes

"A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it." "Fool, said my muse to me, look in thy heart and write" "Sing me the universal." "What is better than to sit at ease and listen to the best that the poets sing?" "A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted" "Crafting a compelling narrative is about subverting expectations." "Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves." "A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence." "The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream." "Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry." "I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book." "To see the summer sky is poetry though never in a book it lie" "“Leisure without books is death, and burial”" "Dying is an art, like everything else " "That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong."