Literary imagination is an aesthetic object
offered by a writer to a lover of books.
-- Gaston
Bachelard
1884-1962,
French Scientist, Philosopher, Literary
Theorist
Literature is without proofs. By which it
must be understood that it cannot prove, not
only what it says, but even that it is worth
the trouble of saying it.
-- Roland
Barthes
1915-1980,
French Semiologist
In the present age, alas! our pens are
ravished by unlettered authors and
unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather
than a building, a wilderness rather than a
garden. But, a lack! what boots it to drop
tears upon the preterit?
-- Aubrey
Beardsley
1872-1898,
British Illustrator, Writer
Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas.
If you are a poet, your works will contain
them without your knowledge -- they will be
both moral and national if you follow your
inspiration freely.
-- Vissarion
Belinsky
