Partido Alto - Literature

Famous quotes containing the word literature:

“Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

“If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

“In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and infinite quality in their esteem.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)