“Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?” Continue reading
Category Archives: Literature
Seneca on Literature
“I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.” Continue reading
Paul Dirac on Science and Poetry
“In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it’s the exact opposite.” Continue reading
Victor Hugo on Society
“There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.” Continue reading
Horace on Poetry
“No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.” Continue reading
Thomas Carlyle on Education
“What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.” Continue reading
William Shakespeare on Imagination
“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.” Continue reading
George Bernard Shaw on Reading
“Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.” Continue reading
Samuel Johnson on Writing
“Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.” Continue reading
George Orwell on Language
“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.” Continue reading
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