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- Returning his pen to its holder, he told us, 'I will have him gutted with that scythe. I will hang him by… — Patrick deWitt
- Le Verrier-without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky-had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as… — Camille Flammarion
- Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a… — Joseph Brodsky
- If belief in the miraculous revelation of the Old Testament and the New is required to make a man religious, then Franklin… — Theodore Parker
- So, then, the best of the historian is subject to the poet; for whatsoever action or faction, whatsoever counsel, policy, or war-stratagem… — Philip Sidney
- Everyone in their life has his own particular way of expressing life's purpose - the lawyer his eloquence, the painter his palette,… — Gino Bartali
- What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his… — John Ciardi
- Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of… — Samuel Johnson