Bernt Carlsson - Literature

Famous quotes containing the word literature:

“First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“I make a virtue of my suffering
From nearly everything that goes on round me.
In other words, I know wherever I am,
Being the creature of literature I am,
I shall not lack for pain to keep me awake.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“This is not “writing” at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)