Literature Quotes
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. -- Francis Bacon
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Robert
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
Eliot, T.S.
Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. -- T. S. Eliot
Voltaire
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe