Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.

Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts
better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets read more

But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts
better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses.

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

I dare say I am compelled, unconsciously compelled, now to write volume after volume, as in past years I was read more

I dare say I am compelled, unconsciously compelled, now to write volume after volume, as in past years I was compelled to go to sea, voyage after voyage. Leaves must follow upon each other as leagues used to follow in the days gone by, on and on to the appointed end, which, being truth itself, is one -- one for all men and for all occupations.

Literature is news that stays news.

Literature is news that stays news.

You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill.

You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill.

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.