Advantage Quote by T. S. Eliot

I think I would have been a totally different kind of writer if I'd gone to England. I might have developed a cynicism about…

— Derek Walcott

We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it. The…

— Oscar Wilde

As regards literary culture, it fascinates me that it has been so resilient to the Union. For example, when T.S. Eliot wanted to become…

— Ian Mcewan

Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all…

— Tobias Wolff

If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find…

— Nathaniel Smith

The condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero, not a poet.

— Henry David Thoreau

I think the whole emphasis in England, in universities, on practical criticism (but not that so much as on historical criticism, knowing what period…

— Sylvia Plath

In my eyes, America seemed to have an unabashed sense of freedom and fun while England was a little bit more reserved. Truthfully, I…

— Samantha Newark

The English were infuriating. Everything was designed to put an outsider at a disadvantage. If you had to ask, you didn't belong.

— Daisy Goodwin

It's easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at the time.

— Philip Dunne

I don't know what would have happened to me as a writer if I had gone to England and shaped my life out of…

— Derek Walcott

Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred…

— Robert Falcon Scott