Teacher, tender comrade, wife,A fellow farer true through life,Heart whole and soul free,The August father gave to me.
Till America has learned to love literature not as an amusement, not as mere doggerel to memorize in a college room, but for its humanizing and ennobling energy, my dear reverend president, she will n...
You are always better off to read a book, anyway, than to meet the person behind it.
'Yes, we rather condemn people for eternity without the courtesy of informing them.'
Before long, I had lost my youth and my patience for indulging others. Books were everything in life; books were better than wine.
He worshipped at the temple of her intellect and I believe it was a comfort to him to know that she left our world with it still shining.
How odd it must be to go through life believing that a book is a book.
'Till America has learned to love literature not as an amusement, not as a mere doggerel to memorize in a college room, but for its humanizing and ennobling energy, my dear reverend president, she wil...
Beware the camel’s nose—for its whole body will soon follow.
Dante's Hell is part of our world as much as part of the underworld, and shouldn't be avoided, Lowell said, but rather confronted. We sound the depths of Hell very often in this life.
These tears were difficult: they didn’t want to come out and they didn’t want to stay in.
These people build as if they were immortal and eat as if they were to die instantly.
Remember that only when past genius is transmitted into a present power shall we meet the first truly american poet. And somewhere, born to the streets rather than the athenaeum, we will come upon the...
The force of Dante's poetry resonated most in those who did not confess the Catholic faith, for believers would inevitably have quibbles with Dante's theology. But for those most distant theologically...
I do not seek the mantle of genius. I am an appreciator, an observer, a preposition, and content in that, and that's me in a nutshell.
I was looking for something else in books. I could not really say what, but I think I can say why: a notion started in my own brain was probably wrong, but an answer read in a work of literature would...
Imagine! It is the real power of a book--not what is on the page, but what happens when a reader takes the pages in, makes it part of himself. That is the definition of literature.
It is my conviction that we make ourselves who we want to be and not chain ourselves to the notions of busybodies who wish to judge us.
Now, on his way to another lecture, the very thought of entering a room full of students, who still thought it was possible to learn all about something, made him yawn.
On the trees were no longer only leaves but brown fruits, on the bushes no longer blossoms but clusters of red berries. And the wind had a rough manliness in its voice - the tone not of a lover but of...
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