Miscellaneous quotation

“Literature is the right use of language irrespective of the subject or reason of the utterance. A political speech may be, and sometimes is, literature; a sonnet to the moon may be, and often is, trash. Style is what distinguishes literature from trash.”
--Evelyn Waugh

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/30/is-philosophy-literature/