In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern. — Edward Bulwer Lytton
In literature, you either create a classical or create a foam! There is no in between! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
I am an anglo-catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics. — T.S. Eliot
The classic theology of my tradition comes from the French Renaissance. [William] — Marilynne Robinson
Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn’t — Steig Larsson
Allen ginsberg was a world ity on the writing of william blake, and had an incredible knowledge — David Amram
One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness — George Saintsbury
They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. — Stephen Leacock
The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of — James Loeb