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Andre Aciman • Call Me By Your Name
"You are young," replied Athos; "and your bitter recollections have time to change themselves into sweet remembrances."
Alexandre Dumas • The Three Musketeers
[“Galla, refuse me; love is glutted with joys that are not attended with trouble.”—Martial, iv. 37.]
Michel de Montaigne • Michel de Montaigne - The Complete Essays
What the prophets were to morality, so too were the poets to beauty.
Thomas Carlyle • On Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in History (Rethinking the Western Tradition)
this style of poetry, which I have characterized above, as translations of prose thoughts into poetic language, had been kept up by, if it did not wholly arise from, the custom of writing Latin verses, and the great importance attached to these exercises, in our public schools. Whatever might have been the case in the fifteenth century, when the us
... See moreSamuel Taylor Coleridge • Biographia Literaria
Milton and Locke, Rousseau, Jean Paul, and Goethe are the legitimate descendants. Like Dante or Bunyan, he has a revelation of another life; like Bacon, he is profoundly impressed with the unity of knowledge;