Literature

“文以载道，儒者无不能言之。”

“六经皆史也。”

“Našel jsem tu Válku s mloky. K Čapkovi jsem měl vždycky blízko.”

“The link between the two is that you have to be very careful with the text, and that you can respond to a text in various ways.”

“Literature begins with that “why,” even if we were to answer that question over and over with an ordinary “I don’t know.””

“La literatura refleja las ideas vigentes en una sociedad, y es expresión de ella.”

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”

“I credit poetry, in other words, both for being itself and for being a help.”

“فإن بيتا بغير كتب هو بيت بغير فكر.. أى بيت بلا روح، والمقابر هو المكان الوحيد الذى يخلو من الكتب.”

“La poesía es respiración y silencio.”

“لستُ أهوى القراءةَ لأكتبَ، ولا أهوى القراءةَ لأزدادَ عُمُرًا في تقديرِ الحسابِ، وإنما أهوى القراءةَ؛ لأنَّ عندي حياةً واحدةً في هذه الدنيا وحياةً واحدةً لا تكفيني.”

“I believe that the sentimental has a place in poetry.”

“The most important thing is that I'm writing in Irish Gaelic.”

“In the case of history what matters is its meaning; its medium is events, and its vehicle is literature.”

“I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.”

“All poems are rash acts.”

“Neither philosophy nor literature. Nothing but a painting.”

“They had a good library at the railway workshops and so I discovered a new world.”