Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody's shouting "Which Side Are You On?" And Ezra Pound and… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
T.S. Eliot, who learned to swim at the same beach as I did, just threw in the towel and moved to Cheyne… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
“I do not know of anything in modern poetry as violently hostile to contemporary life as was the poetry of T. S.… — Dennis Gabor Copy Share Image
Both T.S. Eliot and I like to play, but I like to play euchre, while he likes to play Eucharist. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Last year I was a judge for a prize in England, the T.S. Eliot Prize, so I read everything that was published… — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The aim of great books is ethical: to teach what it means to be a man. Every major form of literary art… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
I started moving away from poets like Wallace Stevens and Hart Crane and started reading poets like, again, Karl Shapiro, Howard Nemerov,… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Who did she know in Raleigh who took the time off to fix a house? Or read Whitman or Eliot, finding images… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I think the whole emphasis in England, in universities, on practical criticism (but not that so much as on historical criticism, knowing… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Compare King William with the philosopher Haeckel. The king is one of the anointed by the most high, as they claim—one upon… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“ Jeremy Bentham startled the world many years ago by stating in effect that if the amount of pleasure obtained from each… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
One of the many things I said was that Eliot Spitzer had one set of rules for himself and one set for… — John Faso Copy Share Image
It is bizarre that some people can't understand how a serious poet could work at a finance firm. Goethe was a bureaucrat.… — Katy Lederer Copy Share Image
You see that in the news constantly; done both the right way and the wrong way. The most recent example I can… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote, by which I think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes people crazy.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
As I've gotten older I've become a devotee of 19th-century authors, such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot. — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
“Genius' was a word loosely used by expatriot Americans in Paris and Rome, between the Versailles Peace treaty and the Depression, to… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Any more questions?" I ask, poking him gently in the ribs. "Do you still love me any?" Eliot asks, putting his hand… — Brad Barkley Copy Share Image
Always in England if you had the type of brain that was capable of understanding T.S. Eliot's poetry or Kant's logic, you… — D. J. Taylor Copy Share Image
A great deal of anthropological/ethnological literature describes indigenous peoples who live in oneness with the natural world and one another. Survival itself… — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
George Eliot is my only steady girlfriend. We go to bed together every night. — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
I'm not a big Austen reader. I wouldn't say I dislike her, but if I had to choose between her and Eliot… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I had not read George Eliot, so read a few. I felt ashamed I hadn't read "Middlemarch" before. — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
[P]eople need to use their intelligence to evaluate what they find to be true and untrue in the Bible. This is how… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
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