PLATITUDE n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. A desiccated epigram.
The only sensible ends of literature are first the pleasurable toil of writing; second the gratification of ones family and friends; and lastly the solid cash.
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual when it begins to ignore the passions the motions it becomes sterile silly and actually without substance.
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; And writing an exact man.
Without knowing the force of words it is impossible to know men.
The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
Great Literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
The answers you get from literature depend upon the questions you pose.
PLATITUDE n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. A desiccated epigram.
Literature is an investment of genius which pays dividends to all subsequent times.
People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad.
The only sensible ends of literature are first the pleasurable toil of writing; second the gratification of ones family and friends; and lastly the solid cash.
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
The universe is made of stories not of atoms.
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual when it begins to ignore the passions the motions it becomes sterile silly and actually without substance.