Authorship Quote by Alexis Lykiard

“It is the voice of everyday people, rather than of a self-conscious 'artist', that we hear in Caedmon's Hymn, and in such texts as…

— Ronald Carter

“Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous and critical sense either tragedies or comedies, but compositions of a distinct kind; exhibiting the real state…

— Samuel Johnson

“I shall set down in a few lines how uptight Maldoror was during his early years, when he lived happy. There: done. He later…

— Comte de Lautréamont

“But see, amid the mimic rout A crawling shape intrude! A blood-red thing that writhes from out The scenic solitude! It writhes!- it writhes!-…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Folly is so human that it has common roots with poetry and tragedy; it is revealed as much in the insane asylum as in…

— RICHARD HOWARD

“It is a novel constructed like a poem, where each character is only exceptional because if the hyperbolic manner in which he represents generality.”

— Victor Hugo

“The unchanging Man of history is wonderfully adaptable cloth by his power of endurance and in his capacity for detachment. The fact seems to…

— Joseph Conrad

“There were times when he confronted his own image as a man confronts an empty valley, and the vision propelled him forward again to…

— John le Carré

The malcontent is neither well, full nor fasting; and though he abounds with complaints, yet nothing dislikes him but the present; for what he…

— Joseph Hall

“If Shakespeare be considered as a MAN born in a rude age and educated in the lowest manner, without any instruction either from the…

— David Hume

Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile.

— Isabel Allende

That the play is the tragedy, “Man,” And its hero, the Conqueror Worm.

— Edgar Allan Poe