Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the rest of the rock scene, you'll find that there's mostly working-class people.

We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd read; you can say something, you don't have to explain it.

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have.

The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.