Bernt Carlsson - Literature

Famous quotes containing the word literature:

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

“What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That’s what their substance is.”
—Jonathan Miller (b. 1936)

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