Literature - novels, plays, and poems - can have an uncanny dual life, where they simultaneously represent something eternal and something historical, and this is often how they are taught in school.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.
For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.
Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
Literature has become my life.
Literature has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I just thought literature is a thing that human beings do.
Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.