Literary Richness Quotes

Shakespeare is the best writing ever. It's incredibly rich, dense, expressive language.

You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.

The Jews are among the aristocracy of every land; if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic tragedies, what shall we say to a national tragedy lasting for fifteen hundred years, in which the poets and the actors were also the heroes.

Literature is a vast forest and the masterpieces are the lakes, the towering trees or strange trees, the lovely, eloquent flowers, the hidden caves, but a forest is also made up of ordinary trees, patches of grass, puddles, clinging vines, mushrooms, and little wildflowers.

Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.

Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy minor characters short, is where. (Did you know that Dickens is estimated to have invented thirteen thousand characters? Thirteen thousand! The population of a small town!)

Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.

Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those stories. And literate.

When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely.

Virgil, above all poets, had a stock which I may call almost inexhaustible, of figurative, elegant, and sounding words.

Whether or not a text really is a universe unto itself, it is safe to say that it can only ever be as rich as its most sensitive interpreter.

I love that he's both comic and tragic, and highly poetic but also just dirty at times. ... I love that within the world of Shakespeare's plays, the whole world is sort of encompassed in a certain way.

The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave

Unfortunately, many just read 'Gitanjali' and think they know Tagore. Nothing could be further from the truth. He is much, much more.

Was Mann himself fully aware of all the facets of his irony? Probably not - any more than Shakespeare was fully aware of all the riches subsequent critics have found in his plays.

The world of literature is so rich and so enriching. The value is inestimable of what reading does for you.

if sometimes we are bogged down in lines full of "corybulous", "hypogeum", "plangent", "irrefragably", "glozening", "tellurian", "conclamant", sometimes we are caught up in the soaring rapture of something unprecedented, absolutely individual.

My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.

Literature is a house with many mansions.

Few nations match our rich resource of literature.

The wonderful thing about being an American writer is you've got this vastness to draw from.

In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.

The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel.