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About his figure there is a Celtic pathos; like the Gaels in Matthew Arnold’s quotation, “he went forth to battle, but he always fell.” He is a mountain of proposals, a mountain of failures; but still a mountain. And a mountain is always romantic.

G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]

Great literature is the heart of a civilization. When we think of the Greeks, we think of Homer and Sophocles, of the Romans, Virgil and Seneca. Dante was Italy’s greatest flourishing, and Shakespeare England’s. These works might be representative of a set of core beliefs or ideas, but they are also extraordinary aesthetic achievements. They record... See more

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They have remained in the museum of my mind.

A. E. Hotchner • Hemingway in Love: His Own Story

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Frances Hodgson Burnett • The Secret Garden

Character calls forth character.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • Maxims and Reflections

Poetry is the fount of all writing. Without a deep understanding of poetry and its practices, any power the writer might have is greatly diminished.

Walter Mosley • This Year You Write Your Novel

Briefly Carleton considered the other man, of whom he’d made such a study he might have been appointed professor of Thomas Studies at the University of Essex. He knew, for example, that Thomas was a confirmed bachelor, as they say, never seen in the company of a beautiful young person or a stately older one; that he had about him the melancholy rel

Sarah Perry • Enlightenment

"that man has, then, a spark of pity in his soul; of that spark I will make a flame that shall devour him.

Alexandre Dumas • The Three Musketeers

Sir Morris Abbot,