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One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations of every natural act.
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One of the proud joys of the man of letters –if that man of letters is an artist is to feel within himself the power to immortalize at will anything he chooses to immortalize. Insignificant though he may be, he is conscious of possessing a creative divinity. God creates lives; the man of imagination creates fictional lives which may make a profound and as it were more living impression on the world’s memory.
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Only now it had become indispensable to him to have her face pressed close to him; he could never let her go again. He could never let her head go away from the close clutch of his arm. He wanted to remain like that for ever, with his heart hurting him in a pain that was also life to him.
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Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.’ Andre Gide
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Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.- Ford Madox Ford
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Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an addition splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity; they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad; in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow-travellers on a journey, and attendants in out rural recesses.
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‘Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature.’
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Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry.- A.W. Hare
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People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.- Chinua Achebe
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People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with bad.’ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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Perhaps it is that high achievements demand some other unusual qualification besides an unusual desire for high prizes . . .
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Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible.
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Poetry is a cart for carrying ideas that are too lame to walk on their own.
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Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.’ Robert Fitzgerald
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Pray for me! I reckoned if she knowed me she’d take a job that was more nearer her size. But I bet she done it, just the same–she was just that kind. She had the grit to pray for Judus if she took the notion–there warn’t no back-down to her, I judge.
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Pride and jealousy there was in his eye, for his life had been spent in asserting rights which were constantly liable to invasion; and the prompt, fiery, and resolute disposition of the man, had been kept constantly upon the alert by the circumstances of his situation.
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Prize, oh! Haul! shouted Dan, but the shout ended in a shrill, double shriek of horror, for out of the sea came – the body of the dead Frenchman buried two days before! The hook had caught him under the right armpit, and he swayed, erect and horrible, head and shoulders above water.
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Professors of literature, who for the most part are genteel but mediocre men, can make but a poor defense of their profession, and the professors of science, who are frequently men of great intelligence but of limited interests and education
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