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)

“Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connexion with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.”
—Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926)