Famous quotes about the importance of literature

1. When literature becomes half commodity and half art, it will flourish----[English] Ralph

2. Society provides materials to literature, and literature provides norms to society. -----Guo Moruo

3. Literature is the textbook of human life---Chernyshevsky

4. People who engage in literature only need to be tenacious. Be serious and have three toughnesses, and that's it. ----Lu Xun

5. Literature---in fact, it has always been a partner of education; the development of literature and the development of educational requirements have always been parallel. [Russian] Dobrolyubov

6. Literature makes thoughts full of flesh and blood. It can give thoughts great clarity and explanation better than philosophy or science. [Su] Gorky

7. 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. ---[French] Flaubert

8. Any literature that does not take the perfection of morality, ideals and usefulness as its purpose is pathological and unhealthy literature. ----[France] Xiao Dumas

9. Literature should foresee the future and run at the forefront with its most beautiful and inspiring achievements, as if it is protecting life moving forward. -----[Soviet] A. Tolstoy

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

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

——Goethe

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

——Lamartine