Age Quote by Boris Pasternak

“The great prophetic work of the modern world is Goethe’s Faust , so little appreciated among the Anglo-Saxons. Mephistopheles offers Faust unlimited knowledge and…

— Robert Aickman

“Throughout their whole existence men are blind; So, Faust, be thou like them at last.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is. He is discontented with everything and everybody. The…

— William Saroyan

“The poet who sees himself as a hero or a prophet, or a priest of the socio-political forces to which he is loyal, which…

— Michael D. O'Brien

All literature is a footnote to Faust. I have no idea what I mean by that.

— Woody Allen

He regarded himself as an accomplished writer — a clear sign of madness in anyone.

— Paul Theroux

The fellow is either a madman or a poet.

— Horace

If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer.

— Isaac Asimov

“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

“Four very strange and truly poetic human beings in this century have attained mastery in prose, for which this century was not made otherwise—for…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“... Faustus ... dared to confirm he had advanced beyond the level of a scarlet sinner — he was a conscious follower of the…

— E.A. Bucchianeri

“Where is the writer,” he began, “who is unstained by any habits of the human, who is the ideal of everything alien to living,…

— Thomas Ligotti