Beginning Quote by Paul Heyse

After attending the gymnasium between my eighth and seventeenth years, I studied classical philology at Berlin University for two years under Boeckh and Lachmann,…

— Paul Heyse

I started a PhD in English at the University of Chicago because I loved poetry-which I now realize is like saying I studied vivisection…

— Michael Donaghy

I studied classical music in the Conservatory of Paris.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

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

— David Means

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

— Jonathan Kozol

My master's degree was in English literature.

— Sylvia Browne

I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.

— Paloma Elsesser

I studied classical music in high school.

— Lauren Ambrose

I grew up in a literary home and majored in French, English, and sociology. They all have served me well over the years.

— Gloria Gaither

I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and the classics.…

— Tim Blake Nelson

Because the completion of labour service was a precondition for permission to study at the university, I was able to begin my studies of…

— Heinrich Boll

A lot of people don't know that my background is completely classical. For a while there, I was all about Moliere and the Greeks…

— Katy Mixon