Byron Quote by Matthew Arnold

“Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes…

— William Shakespeare

All of your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be vain if at the same time you did not build your…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“The English departments were clogged with worthy but outworn and backwardlooking scholars whose tastes in the moderns were most often superficial, random, and vulgar.…

— Robert Lowell

All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“It is heresy to say that we shall ever again produce a poet of Shakespeare's stature, but we have faith that when the spirit…

— Alfred B. Douglas

But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

— Andrew Motion

You know that the nucleus of a time is not The poet but the poem, the growth of the mind Of the world, the…

— Wallace Stevens

“For more than half a century I have tried to confront greatness directly, hardly a fashionable stance, but I see no other justification for…

— Harold Bloom

Physician of the Iron Age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage. He took the suffering human race, He read each wound, each weakness clear --…

— Matthew Arnold

“With the passage of time, the consequences of any event accumulated, and left more to undo. And the more there is to undo, the…

— Michael Lewis

Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.

— Franz Grillparzer

“I foresee,’ said Goethe, ‘the dawn of a new literature which all people may claim as their own, for all have contributed to its…

— Oscar Wilde