Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

My literary success meant nothing to me.

There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science it is an aid to art.

When we blindly adopt a religion a political system a literary dogma we become automatons. We cease to grow.

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say 'Can he name a kitten?'

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches copies of copies until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity doubt uncertainty not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material but because that is the way we humans really are.

Politics in a literary work is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert something vulgar and however something which is impossible to ignore.

Probably induced by the asthma I started reading and writing early on my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.

I guess the two Manifesto Communicating Vessels Mad Love and some of his poetry made a significant mark on me but as far as bringing a literary element into the music I see it as a much broader assimilation.

I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play it has a poignancy to it.

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre and installed instead as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it but anybody can do it.

Science fiction outside of poetry is the only literary field which has no limits no parameters whatsoever.

Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen a lot of them will.

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies including preliminary examinations in botany zoology physics and chemistry was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work.

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.

The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.