Achilles exists only through Homer. Take away the art of writing from this world, and you will probably take away its glory.

Achille n'existe que par Homère. Otez de ce monde l'art d'écrire, il est probable que vous en Aterez la gloire.

François-Rene de Chateaubriand

Les Natchez

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Power of literature

Author

François-Rene de Chateaubriand

Source

Les Natchez

Medium

Novel

Language

French

Time

1826 1820s 19th century

Occupation

Politician Writer

From

France Europe

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Citation

De Chateaubriand, François-René. Les Natchez. c. 1826, preface.

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Hamlet is a name: His speeches and sayings but the idle coinage of the poet's brain. What then, are they not real? They are as real as our own thoughts. Their reality is in the reader's mind. It is we who are Hamlet.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Time
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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

Gaston Bachelard

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Author

Gaston Bachelard
Source
The Poetics of Space
Language
French
Time
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Original Citation

Bachelard, Gaston. La Poetique de l'Espace [The Poetics of Space]. Presses Universitaires de France, 1948, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Bachelard, Gaston. The Poetics of Space, translated by Maria Jolas. Penguin Classics, 2014, ch. 1.