This-side-of-paradise Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Keats was getting a reputation just when he was too ill to appreciate it or build on it: his country was taking notice of…

— Jude Morgan

“There is indeed a poetical attitude to be adopted towards all things, but all things are not fit subjects for poetry. Into the secure…

— Oscar Wilde

Keats, it must be remembered, was a sensualist. His poems ... reveal him as a man not altogether free from the vulgarities of sensualism,…

— Robert Wilson Lynd

“But the thing about people, Kell had discovered, is that they didn't really want to kow. They thought they did, but knowing only made…

— V.E. Schwab

“It has all the terrible beauty of a Greek tragedy, a tragedy in which I took a great part, but by which I have…

— Oscar Wilde

“I lived in an enclave in which our oldest had seen twenty-five years. His face was withered, and his fingers shook when he attempted…

— Ann Aguirre

“...and in repose one might have admired so fine a specimen of English manhood, until the foppish ways, the affected movements, the perpetual inane…

— Emmuska Orczy

“they were, perhaps, so unwearyingly fond of good things not least because they could, when put to it, do without them, and could survive…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Then, as now, archaelogists and writers ventured where others feared to tread.”

— Janet Wallach

“Like the college professor he was, Kittredge groped only for big words, and, finding no apt ones, he coined a lot of untranslatable new…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“That wild, dangerous part of him. He knew now where it was running, and to whom. He could never have known that the one…

— Thea Harrison

“I had a few pricks of conscience- seeing Henry's pajama bottoms hanging forlornly from a peg in our bedroom, his comb on he dresser,…

— Hillary Jordan