Literary Movements

Famous quotes containing the words literary and/or movements:

“Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a writer does not see what he describes—countrysides and figures, movements and gestures—how could he have a style, that is originality?”
—Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)