Trivial Literature

Famous quotes containing the words trivial and/or literature:

“If the pages of this book contain some successful verse, the reader must excuse me the discourtesy of having usurped it first. Our nothingness differs little; it is a trivial and chance circumstance that you should be the reader of these exercises and I their author.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)

“First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)