Literature Quotes

"I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel" "Abandon all hope, you who enter here" "The night is beautiful so the faces of my people" "To the last I grapple with thee from hell’s heart I stab at thee for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee" "Between the idea and the reality between the motion and the act falls the Shadow" "If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays" "Reader, I married him" "Read in order to live" "The better a work is the more it attracts criticism" "Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality" "I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat" "You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say." "Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy." "We live for books" "Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry" "I guess there are never enough books" "The fox and the grapes" "The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time." "Poetry should be able to comprehend the earth" "I am not immortal. Faustus and I never signed a pact but I am damn close"