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Vigny, more secretAs if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon."N.B.: Vigny refers to Comte de Vigny, who locked himself in an ivory tower to work without the influences of man and desire. (Quote by - Charles Augustin Sainte-beuve)
Learning why one great book is just like every other great book is the key to understanding literature (Quote by - John Moschitta)
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. (Quote by - Gail Godwin)
You, the Spirit of the Settlement! ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries... (Quote by - Israel Zangwill)
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. (Quote by - Thomas Carruthers)
All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them. (Quote by - Richard Hughes)
Perish those who said our good things before we did. (Quote by - Donatus)
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. (Quote by - Cicero)
A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation. (Quote by - H.l. Mencken)
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road. (Quote by - Stendhal)
The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest. (Quote by - Charles Churchill)
If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet. A majority by definition, society thinks of itself as having other options than reading verses, no matter how well written. Its failure to do so results in its sinking to that level of locution at which society falls easy prey to a demagogue or a tyrant. This is society's own equivalent of oblivion. (Quote by - Joseph Brodsky)
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. (Quote by - Smith & Jones)