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“The Jews are among the aristocracy of every land; if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic tragedies, what shall we say to a national tragedy lasting for fifteen hundred years, in which the poets and the actors were also the heroes.”

Ifs Years Actors Literature Rich Land Poet Hero Hundred Tragedy Jew Possession Classic Lasting Fifteen Aristocracy

Author:George Eliot

“James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. [Ulysses is] ... an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere, no man's land.”

Men Literature Lost Land Example Joyce Ulysses

Author:Werner Herzog

“While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none the less a persistent and permanent type of expression, as old as literature itself. There will always be a certain small percentage of persons who feel a burning curiosity about unknown outer space, and a burning desire to escape from the prison-house of the known and the real into those enchanted lands of incredible adventure and infinite possibilities which dreams open up to us, and which things like deep woods, fantastic urban towers, and flaming sunsets momentarily suggest.”

Source: H.P. Lovecraft: The Ultimate Collection (160 Works Including Early Writings, Fiction, Collaborations, Poetry, Essays & Bonus Audiobook Links)

“Shakespearean fish swam the sea, far away from land; Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand.”

Hands Literature Sea Land Tradition Fishes Heritage Far Away

Book:Selected Poems And Four Plays

Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays

“As a filmmaker coming from one of the youngest lands in the world, New Zealand - safe, green and democratic - I was intrigued by Afghanistan, with its literature and poetry, its old land and its deep history.”

World Literature Land Safe Green Democratic Filmmaker Afghanistan Intrigued New Zealand

Author:Pietra Brettkelly

“We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land. We smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth. We invented a medium of exchange, mined silver and gold, made pottery and cutlery, we fashioned tools and utensils of brass, bronze, ivory, quartz, and granite. We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.”

“And, just for good measure, here are a handful of runners up: For now the seventh summer carries you, A wanderer, across the lands and waters.”

Literature Water Land Summer Carrie Runners Handful Wanderers Land And Water Runner Up

Author:Virgil

“We have Christians against Muslims against Jews. They're making incompatible claims on real estate in the Middle East as though God were some kind of omniscient real estate broker parsing out parcels of land to his chosen flock. People are literally dying over ancient literature.”

People Kind Real Christian Literature Land Middle Dying Claims Ancient Jew East Chosen Middle East Estates Flocks Parcel Brokers Omniscient Ancient Literature

Author:Sam Harris

“It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.”

Form Literature Land Expression Failure Pioneers Undertakings Pioneering

Book:The Passionate State of Mind

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

“It strikes everyone in beginning to form an acquaintance with the treasures of Indian literature that a land so rich in intellectual products and those of the profoundest order of thought.”

Form Order Literature Rich Land Products Intellectual Strikes Treasure Indian Acquaintance

Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.”

Book Reading Literature Views Land Approach Distance Landscape Charm Visible Fairy Fades Thorns Briars

Book:Works: Complete in 27 Volumes. Tales of a traveller

Source: Works: Complete in 27 Volumes. Tales of a traveller

“The labours I devoted between 1888 to 1900 to the critical edition, translation and commentary of Kalhana's Rajatarangini, the only true historical text of Sanskrit literature, afforded me ample opportunities of gaining close contact with Sanskrit savants of Kashmir, the land where traditional learning of Hindu India had flourished in old times greatly and survived until recent years.”

Years Literature Opportunity Land India Historical Critical Traditional Contact Labour Devoted Survived Translations Commentary Old Time Kashmir Sanskrit Savants

Author:Aurel Stein

“They are the kinds of things that make us a community: attachment to place, attachment to local arts traditions, the ability to read literature, the ability to look at paintings, the sense of connectedness to the land, the sense of community that comes from people taking care of their own.”

People Looks Kind Art Care Literature Community Ability Land Painting Tradition Locals Attachment Connectedness

Author:Robert Hass