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The link between the Polish and Romanian literature transpires in aproaching common motives: Sobieski, Cosmin Forests, Despot Voda, maiden Ruxandra, motiveswhich are highlighting the most important...

Author: Constantin Geambasu (1948) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 0 | Fav

For Polish, the work of Cioran and Eliade is bringsing with itself an impressive world of thought and reflection.

Author: Constantin Geambasu (1948) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The construction of a poem equals the carving in marble of a statue, or just only a statuettes. The composition of a statuary group sends you to prose.

Author: Barbu Cioculescu (1927) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 0 | Fav

I lived to write, and wrote to live.

Author: Samuel Rogers (1763 - 1855) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 0 | Fav

There is no difference between making bread and printing books.

Author: Costache Olareanu (1929 - 2000) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The avantgarde are people who don’t exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.

Author: Romain Gary (1914 - 1980) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

Author: Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

In a good play every speech should be as fully flavoured as a nut or apple.

Author: John Millington Synge (1871 - 1909) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms.

Author: Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (1873 - 1950) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 10 | Rank: 0 | Fav

A probing analysis of the problems of evolution forms the basis of my prose.

Author: Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (1873 - 1950) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 14 | Rank: 0 | Fav

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

Author: André Maurois (1885 - 1967) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 12 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The writer cannot exist outside of the fortress and mother tongue.

Author: Vasile Tarateanu (1945) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 47 | Rank: 0 | Fav

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

Author: Raymond Chandler (1888 - 1959) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 33 | Rank: 0 | Fav

In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women.

Author: Hugo Claus (1929 - 2008) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 37 | Rank: 0 | Fav

When it began to grow dark, the Rat, with an air of excitement and mystery, summoned them back into the parlour, stood each of them up alongside of his little heap, and proceeded to dress them up...

Author: Kenneth Grahame (1859 - 1932) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 77 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.

Author: Kenneth Grahame (1859 - 1932) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 76 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.

Author: Frank Norris (1870 - 1902) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 197 | Rank: 0 | Fav

You, O Queen, are the fairest here, But Snow White, who has gone to stay With the seven dwarfs far, far away, Is a thousand times more fair. Snow White

Author: Wilhelm Grimm (1786 - 1859) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 69 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Mirror, mirror, here I stand. Who is the fairest in the land?

Author: Wilhelm Grimm (1786 - 1859) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 70 | Rank: 0 | Fav

You can point out to people how to make what they do better, but you can't teach somebody how to be a great writer, just like you can't teach somebody how to be a fast runner. You can work on their...

Author: Richard Price (1723 - 1791) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 71 | Rank: 0 | Fav
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