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“Poetry deserves the honor it obtains as the eldest offspring of literature, and the fairest. It is the fruitfulness of many plants growing into one flower and sowing itself over the world in shapes of beauty and color, which differ with the soil that receives and the sun that ripens the seed. In Persia, it comes up the rose of Hafiz; in England, the many-blossomed tree of Shakespeare.”

World Poetry Literature Sun Growing Tree Color Flower Honor Shapes Deserve England Rose Plant Come Up Seeds Soil Offspring Sowing Eldest Persia Fruitfulness Hafiz Plants Growing

Author:Robert Aris Willmott

“Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.”

Stories Shows Literature Moral Type Deserve Oneself Conviction Inclination Something Better

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others - because it's a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.”

Littles Reason Helping Dies Literature Bits Goodness Little Bit Deserve Tools Sanity Prestige

Author:Alain de Botton

“The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.”

Fighting Literature Winning Dog Deserve Underdog

Author:E. W. Howe

“The Yeas are relatively uniform. They view [Bob] Dylan as one of the greatest artists of his or any era, who deserves to be taken as seriously as any litterateur. Where they vary is in some cases not even accepting the distinction: Dylan in their eyes is a literary titan, and the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature is simply official affirmation of what they already knew.”

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Author:David Bennun

“Book critics certainly are judges who wield a tremendous amount of power in terms of whether or not a book will reach a wider audience. That's one of the reasons why I try to give coverage to books written by Latinx writers; too many worthwhile works of literature do not get the kind of coverage they deserve, and I've certainly seen that with respect to books written by writers of color. But there are some wonderful, diverse writers out there who mentor and otherwise support those voices that often have been ignored by much of the mainstream press.”

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Author:Daniel Olivas

“The amplification of our diverse literary voices is a political act of resistance. Our lives are important, too. Our lives should be represented in our literature. And that literature is vital, compelling, and accessible. That literature deserves to be disseminated and noticed and available. And with respect to the dissemination and promotion of diverse voices - librarians, educators, and editors of literary journals play such an important role. They deserve not only a hearty shout out, but also our thanks and support.”

Important Political Literature Support Deserve Thanks Diverse Promotion Librarian Educator Hearty Shout Out

Author:Daniel Olivas

“The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.”

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Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.”

People World Believe Literature I Believe Doors Deserve International Recognition Nobel Arab World

Author:Naguib Mahfouz

“There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.”

Passion Literature Deserve Folks Decent Smoking Tobacco Cigar

Author:Moliere

“There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.”

Country Inspiration Science Religion Literature Knowledge Deserve Bases Promotion Founding Fathers Atheist Patronage

Book:The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private

Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private

“Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"—"not permitted"—"this you can and that you can't." Literature that is not the air of its contemporary society, that dares not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers, such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it is only a facade. Such literature loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as waste paper instead of being read. -Letter to the Fourth National Congress of Soviet Writers”

“The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be acted out.”

Order Literature Language Struggle Deserve Privilege Discourse Arena

Author:Salman Rushdie