Quotes by Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, i >>

There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder wheth >>

There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty >>

Quotations about Literature

With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which >>

One of the proud joys of the man of letters --if that man of letters i >>

All literature is political. >>

One of the proud joys of the man of letters --if that man of letters is an artist is to feel within himself the power to immortalize at will anything he chooses to immortalize. Insignificant though he may be, he is conscious of possessing a creative divinity. God creates lives; the man of imagination creates fictional lives which may make a profound and as it were more living impression on the world's memory.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De