Famous quotes containing the words literary and/or theories:
“The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination.... To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)
“A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)