Epigram Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

“In literature, too, we admire prose in which a small and astutely arranged set of words has been constructed to carry a large consignment…

— Alain de Botton

“Perhaps the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some…

— Samuel Johnson

“Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work. Consider the discrepancies between the actual writing of…

— Ezra Pound

“I suppose that was an example of close attention to detail that is common to writers and artists. It is imperative, whether consciously or…

— Elizabeth Winder

“Nevertheless, let no one boast. Just as every man, though he be the greatest genius, has very definite limitations in some one sphere of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof I hope there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I…

— Jonathan Swift

“Better that the book should be not quite so good, and the writer better, and not himself a ridiculous contrast to all he has…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We can judge the inestimable value of concepts, and consequently of the faculty of reason, if we glance at the endless multitude and variety…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Every profound literary work is a bridge between what we are and what we may become, not just as individuals, but as a collective…

— Alok Mishra

“No one thing shows the greatness and power of the human intellect or the loftiness and nobility of man more than his ability to…

— Giacomo Leopardi

“[T]he greater the sense of awe with which a text was regarded, the more complete might be the amnesia as to the original circumstances…

— Tom Holland

“philosophical writers after his time: nor again must his simplicity of thought and occasional quaintness be reproduced in the form of archaisms of language;…

— Herodotus