Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.
No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much other material to write about.
The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry.
Literature helps us transcend ourselves.
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
Literature seems to offer lessons in human nature that help us decode the world around us and be better friends.
Literature is the stringing together of pictures in words.
Literature is the question minus the answer.
The writer studies literature, not the world.