Literary Theory Quotes

"There is no outside-text" "The more one is conscious of the author’s presence, the greater the distance between the reader and the story" "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion" "It is my aim, and every poet's, to have each work as a whole and each separate paragraph too, to be the whole story, with beginning, middle, climax, and end." "Books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told." "All great literature either founds a genre or dissolves one"