Young Adult Literature

Famous quotes containing the words young, adult and/or literature:

“To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.”
—José Bergamín (1895–1983)

“Flowers so strictly belong to youth, that we adult men soon come to feel, that their beautiful generations concern not us: we have had our day; now let the children have theirs. The flowers jilt us, and we are old bachelors with our ridiculous tenderness.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

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