#literature

In the same period, Polish literature also underwent some significant changes. From social-political literature, which had a great tradition and strong motivation to be that way, Polish literature changed its focus to a psychological rather than a social one. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#changed #changes #focus #great #had

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#orchestration #platitudes

So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#alabama #biologically #evolution #freshman #freshman year

Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that. ↗

— Victoria Wood

#enriches #everybody #literature #lives #music

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#believe #century #come #half #i

Judaism has always been a strong interest of mine. My two sons speak Hebrew and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live. ↗

— Herman Wouk

#been #familiar #hebrew #interest #judaism

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#art #cause #classes #detached #fact

But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark. ↗

— John Updike

#imagery #inspirational #love #lovers #metaphor

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#indicates #literature #nation

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#life #literature #looking #looks #loudly