Bernt Carlsson - Literature

Famous quotes containing the word literature:

“...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)

“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)