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S. Eliot had expressed the same ideas—much more poetically, of course—in The Rock (1934): Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries Bring us farther from God and nearer to the Dust. To paraphrase Neil Postman’s
... See moreJohn C. Bogle • Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life
He is a sorrowful man, but he is not morose.
David Martyn Lloyd-Jones • Studies in the Sermon on the Mount
I sit, with all my theories, metaphors, and equations, Shakespeare and Milton, Barthes, Du Fu, and Homer, masters of death who can’t, at last, teach me how to touch my dead.
Ocean Vuong • On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
the effect of a subdued unchangeable sceptical smile, of all expressions the most tyrannous over a susceptible mind, and, when accompanied by adequate silence, likely to create the reputation of an invincible understanding, an infinite fund of humour – too dry to flow, and probably in a state of immovable crust, – and a critical judgment which, if
... See moreRosemary Ashton • Middlemarch
And intellect at Christminster is new wine in old bottles.
Thomas Hardy • Jude the Obscure: Color Illustrated, Formatted for E-Readers (Unabridged Version)
as if the purpose of poetry is to provide boring exercises for English class. The metaphorical intelligence that has pulled disparate elements together to make the poem is of no consequence.
Kathleen Norris • The Cloister Walk
Who can ever say the perfect thing to the poet about his poetry?
Alice Munro, Dear Life
'although his mode of expressing his opinion is somewhat homely, and occasionally incomprehensible.'
CHARLES DICKENS • THE PICKWICK PAPERS (illustrated, complete, and unabridged)
The public for which masterpieces are intended is not on this earth.