Folk Literature

Famous quotes containing the words folk and/or literature:

“the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open eye—
So priketh hem nature in hir corages—
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

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