W. Somerset Maugham Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• The crown of literature is poetry.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Hygiene, Poetry, Crowns

  W. Somerset Maugham (2010). “Cakes And Ale”, p.90, Random House

• The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Poetry, Achievement, Mind

• I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Funny, People, Literature

• What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Brother, Book, Single Life

  "Newsweek" Magazine, May 23, 1960.

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