Art Quote by George Orwell

From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he…

— Oscar Wilde

“wish to deal with my most distinguished contemporaries, not personally or in a merely literary manner, but in relation to the real body of…

— G.K. Chesterton

“After those four years, he returned to the Midwest. He'd turned twenty-five, the Age of Unfolding, and it was time to write a novel,…

— Chad Harbach

Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets…

— Robert Graves

The weight of his losses finally too much to bear. But not before he has known the unforgiving light of the equator, a love…

— Anita Shreve

“Those whose eyes twenty-five and more years before had seen "the glory of the coming of the Lord," saw in every present hindrance or…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

— Charles Churchill

Poetry and fiction have grieved for a century now over the loss of some vitality which they think they see in a past from…

— Guy Davenport

“Thus it is doubly difficult to write of this period calmly, so intense was the feeling, so mighty the human passions that swayed and…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. He must take to…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

— Edith Sitwell

“(I)n this world of change and lost memories, time brings all things full circle. That which was discarded becomes priceless.Those who were abandoned will…

— Neal Shusterman