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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

A great speech is literature.

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.

All good Literature rests primarily on insight.

To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.