Bernt Carlsson - Literature

Famous quotes containing the word literature:

“How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)