Bernt Carlsson - Literature

Famous quotes containing the word literature:

“The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn’t make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

“In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)

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