Lessons Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We're not in love with Literature all the time - especially when you have to teach it every day.

— Howard Nemerov

The only literary men are those who have to work at it.

— George Ade

It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in…

— Robert Frost

“The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write,…

— W. H. Auden

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

— Thomas Carlyle

I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher

— Mahatma Gandhi

“The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to appreciate bodily…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“The wisest writers devote themselves to what a man ought to know, without asking what a child is capable of learning. They are always…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Literature often gets taught nowadays as a record of the sins and shortcomings of the past. I see literature and the arts very differently:…

— Brian Boyd

“Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their…

— Jane Austen