Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.

For forty years I was conscripted by the absolute, the neurosis. The absolute is gone. There remain countless tasks among which literature is in no way privileged.

For hostile word let hostile word be paid.

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

For me especially, I always need that literature medium.

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

For the twenty million Americans who are hungry tonight, for the homeless freezing tonight, literature is as useless as a knowledge of astronomy.

For they can conquer who believe they can.

For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.

For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.

For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?

Four is a powerful figure in literature and physical form

Fourteen years in the professor dodge has taught me that one can argue ingeniously on behalf of any theory, applied to any piece of literature. This is rarely harmful, because normally no-one reads such essays.

France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are 'made in America.'

Freedom of speech doesn't guarantee great literature.

Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.

Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never.

Freud did some serious damage to American literature - a lot of writers began therapy in the 1940s, after which they all became terribly egocentric.

Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

From our human experience and history, at least as far as I am informed, I know that everything essential and great has only emerged when human beings had a home and were rooted in a tradition. Today's literature is, for instance, largely destructive.

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.

From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not.

Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.

Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

Functions of technical information, historic record, analytic argument, which are integral and obvious to Dante's use of verse are now almost completely a part of the 'prosaic'.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.