Sentence examples for literary wisdom from inspiring English sources

In thinking about this address, I returned to Rilke's "Letters to a Young Poet," the ultimate expression of intergenerational literary wisdom.

Today, when you browse Brainy Quotecom, you don't conceive of yourself as wandering a hallowed storehouse of treasured literary wisdom — you're just rummaging around, looking for something that sounds good and expresses the right idea.com

The fond but subversive novel shows the Queen dispensing snippets of literary wisdom - "At the risk of sounding like a piece of steak, [reading does] tenderise one" - to her bemused subjects.

Each page offers stunning exemplars of how the younger generation of experimental writers is challenging received literary wisdom not at the level of the transcendent or the immanent but at the level of what we may call "hypersemantics" (the idea that a written mark's "meaning" is also a function of its dimensional context rather than merely semiotics and cognition).

Like Ms. Williams, she has a dad who taught her the value of mixing rural wisdom and literary smarts.

Mr. Schulberg, an inexhaustible fount of Hollywood wisdom and literary lore, will attend, as will Ms. Neal, as graceful and intelligent an actress as you will find in a Manhattan movie theater this week.

By now, of course, the agent/editor will be staring at the author, possibly open mouthed if they're still relatively inexperienced and so retain any sort of faith in the inherent wisdom and literary acumen of your average – or even exceptional – writer "... and then the twist at the end!

So, with channeling the dry wit, literary flare and astute wisdom of Mark Twain's "Innocents Abroad" I boarded my flight from Portland, Oregon to Barcelona, Spain on September 20 , 2016

Or, if you prefer literary advice to homespun wisdom, how about Shakepeare's thoughts on the subject: "Give thy thoughts no tongue...Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice/Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment".

But while it's Buddy's voice I want to hear in my head as I return to the story each year, savoring its wisdom and literary brilliance, it is Capote whom I mentally thank for giving readers this enduring gift for all seasons.

When she discovered that the feminist poet Adrienne Rich lived up the road, she asked her for a job and helped to work on Sinister Wisdom, a lesbian literary journal.