Literature Quotes

"For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness" "Some books should be tasted, others devoured" "It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between." "Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it." "I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once." "Books and harlots have their own glow" "My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way " "The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings" "Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language" "The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem comes from the fullness of life" "The muse visits during the writing." "What can ennoble sots or slaves or cowards?" "The descent into hell is easy" "The world must be all fucked up when men travel first class and literature goes as freight" "The wicked are great drinkers of water; as the flood proved"