Bernt Carlsson - Literature

Famous quotes containing the word literature:

“If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

“Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.”
—Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951)

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)