1. When literature becomes half commodity and half art, it will flourish. ——Ralph Ying

2. The heavy night is the prelude to day. ——Guo Xiaochuan

3. Writing sentences behind closed doors is not a method of poetry, but marching has its own poetry. ——Song Dynasty Yang Wanli

4. It is much more difficult to turn words into actions than to turn actions into words. ——Gorky

5. To read any good book is to talk to many noble people. ——Descartes

6. Literature is like fire in a furnace. We borrow fire from others, ignite ourselves, and then pass it on to others, so that it is accepted by everyone. ——Flaubert

7. The changes in literature are related to the world, and the ups and downs are related to the sequence. ——Liu Xie of the Southern and Northern Dynasties

8. Those who are knowledgeable about things will have rich words, and those who have great ambitions will have great feelings. ——Liang Su of Tang Dynasty

9. The beauty of things exists in the minds of people who observe it carefully. ——Hume

10. Insight into worldly matters is knowledge, and understanding of human feelings is knowledge. ——Cao Xueqin of the Qing Dynasty

11. Poems express aspirations, and songs express them. ——Shang Shu

12. Poems, words and paintings mostly flow out of imagination. ——Song Dynasty Zhang Jie

13. Poetry is closer to the truth than history. ——Plato

14. Life is beautiful, but it lacks form. The goal of art is to give life some form. ——Jean Anouilh

15. Literature is the textbook of human life. ——Chernyshevsky

16. Literature fills thoughts with flesh and blood, and it can give thoughts greater clarity and explanation than science and philosophy.——Sugorky

17. Society provides materials to literature, and literature provides norms to society. ——Guo Moruo

18. If you want to learn poetry, your time lies in poetry. ——Lu You of the Song Dynasty

19. The broader a person’s knowledge, the more perfect he is. ——Gorky

20. A person’s life may burn or decay. I cannot decay, I am willing to burn! —— Ostrovsky

21. People who engage in literature only need to be tenacious, serious, and resilient. ——Lu Xun

22. Wonderful ideas are like wandering children, they will appear when you least expect them. ——Bern Williams

23. No one can become famous by imitating others. ——Samuel Johnson

24. Studying a narrow field for too long can easily make people stupid. ——Beveridge

25. Style is character. ——Balzac

26. Literature is the tutor of society. ——Belinsky

27. All articles are well-received. ——Wang Shipeng of the Song Dynasty

28. I wrote about my liver and lungs to others, and the world knew that I had frosty temples. ——Su Shi of the Song Dynasty

29. A person who can think is truly a person with boundless power. ——Balzac

30. The mountains and rivers are pure realms in the eyes, and the soul can be seen in the slightest bit of orchids and bamboos. ——Modern · Xu Naizhao

31. The speaker is the seedling of ambition, and the practitioner is the root of writing. ——Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty

32. Speeches are related to current affairs, and chapters reflect the national style. ——Du Xunhe of the Tang Dynasty

33. To learn knowledge, you must be good at thinking, thinking, and thinking again. This is how I became a scientist. ——Einstein

34. Drama is based on fiction: distorting facts to show the truth. —— Edwevrd Albee

35. Hope is attached to existence. When there is existence, there is hope, and when there is hope, there is light. —— Lu Xun

36. No matter what kind of knowledge you master, it is useful for intelligence. It will throw away useless things and keep good things. ——Leonardo Da Vinci

37. Any valuable knowledge I have learned is from self-study. ——Darwin

38. A great poem is like a fountain, always spouting water of wisdom and joy. ——Shelley

39. Not having much knowledge means ignorance; not being accustomed to thinking means being rude or stupid; not having noble sentiments means being vulgar. ——Chernyshevsky

40. Knowledge itself does not tell people how to use it. The method of application is outside the book. ——Bacon

41. Truth and virtue are two close friends of art. Do you want to be a writer or a critic? Please be a virtuous person first. —— Diderot

42. A person who has never been a poet even once in his life is sad. ——Lamartine

43. The heart is ambition, and the speech is poetry. ——Zhu Xi of the Song Dynasty

44. Language is given to humans to express thoughts. ——Moliere

45. No matter how you detect excellent works, you cannot find the bottom.

——Goethe

46. No matter how you try to detect excellent works, you cannot get to the bottom of them. ——Goethe

47. Heresy is the poetry of life, so having heretical thoughts does no harm to a poet. ——Goethe

48. Art is the promise that makes us realize the truth. ——Picasso

49. What is art but a way of observation? ——Thomas Berger

50. A great poem is like a fountain, always spewing out water of wisdom and joy.

——Shelley