Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry JamesStichwörter: beauty literature english summer
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I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and the soul.
Henry MillerStichwörter: words reading books literature
When he, whoever of the gods it was, had thus arranged in order and resolved that chaotic mass, and reduced it, thus resolved, to cosmic parts, he first moulded the Earth into the form of a mighty ball so that it might be of like form on every side … And, that no region might be without its own forms of animate life, the stars and divine forms occupied the floor of heaven, the sea fell to the shining fishes for their home, Earth received the beasts, and the mobile air the birds … Then Man was born:… though all other animals are prone, and fix their gaze upon the earth, he gave to Man an uplifted face and bade him stand erect and turn his eyes to heaven.
OvidStichwörter: history literature myth creation mythology roman creation-myth
Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or what is beautiful, and they will certainly not shield us from the common fate of the grave. But books grant us myriad possibilities: the possibility of change, the possibility of illumination.
Alberto ManguelStichwörter: words reading books literature
Jigga, Kells, Not Guilty
R. KellyStichwörter: philosophy literature law
We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries full of books we would like to possess, even if they are well beyond our reach, because we enjoy dreaming up a library that reflects every one of our interests and every one of our foibles--a library that, in its variety and complexity, fully reflects the reader we are.
Alberto ManguelStichwörter: reading books dreams literature reader library
Every man's memory is his private literature.
Aldous HuxleyStichwörter: literature memory
So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with. That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what.
Margaret AtwoodStichwörter: inspirational literature happy-endings
Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
Lionel TrillingStichwörter: reading books literature
It was like hiking into a Hemingway story; everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext.
Leslie WhatStichwörter: simile literature funny wilderness hermit
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