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  • We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Work Quotes , Book Quotes
  • Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord, That would reduce these bloody days again And make poor England weep in streams of blood! Let them not live to taste this land's increase That would with treason wound this fair land's peace! Now civil wounds are stopped, peace lives again: That she may long live here, God say amen!
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Book Quotes , Blood Quotes
  • Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Book Quotes , Home Quotes
  • There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes