Achievement Quote by Ezra Pound

So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we…

— Alexandre Dumas

“You begin to suspect, as you gaze through this you-shaped hole of insight and fire, that though it is the most important thing you…

— Samuel R. Delany

“The great human being is a finale; the great age — the Renaissance, for example — is a finale. The genius, in work and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I hold that a man had better be dead than alive when his work is done.

— Alice Cary

There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least…

— Miguel de Cervantes

“Tragedies, I was coming to realize through my daily studies in humanities both in and out of the classroom, were a luxury. They were…

— Lorrie Moore

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.

— Horace Bushnell

Sometimes a person has to be dead a while before people can appreciate what they did when they were alive.

— Curtis Armstrong

Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always be…

— James A. Baldwin

[after the death of a loved one] It is when there is nothing more to be done that the reality of the loss often…

— Judith Martin

“The world is so big, so complicated, so replete with marvels and surprises that it takes years for most people to begin to notice…

— Michael Chabon

The creative consequences of man's imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories.

— Anthony Storr