Chicago Quote by Michael Donaghy

Gradually I became aware that professing English because I loved poems was like practicing vivisection because I loved dogs.

— Michael Donaghy

I studied English at the College of Wooster in Ohio, and I did an M.F.A. in Poetry at Columbia.

— David Means

At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

— Walter Kirn

Remember, I have a Ph.D. in English literature.

— Henry Louis Gates

I was an English major, and I always wrote poems.

— Mat Kearney

All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare.

— Jonathan Kozol

In Bonn, where I studied for a year, I changed from classical to Romance philology, taught there by its great founder, F. Diez, and…

— Paul Heyse

After high school, I went to Stanford University and majored in English. Of course, that gave me a chance to do lots more reading…

— Linda Sue Park

At Harvard, I majored in English Literature.

— Lisa Brennan-Jobs

I think one of the things that distinguished my work from the beginning when I was in college was my turning towards poetry from…

— Edward Hirsch

I got my degree in philosophy and English literature; those were my main interests.

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

I loved getting to study to languages at university, but the loss of diligence and dedication to my studies as my focus shifted to…

— Ivo Graham