Blanche Quote by Tennessee Williams

“I liked to call myself a poet and had affected a habit of reading classical texts (in translation, of course – I was a…

— Mary Karr

“The poet and poetess have always had a rough time of it in the Republic. It has ever been their endemic luck to starve,…

— Guy Davenport

“I must thank you for it all. I might not have gone but for you, and so have missed the finest study I ever…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“I read and talked into the microphone and was gracious to the local rich, the English faculty and the college president, and the students…

— Adam Begley

“Ahhh, teaching literature. A noble calling! For we are all stories.”

— Carolyn Weber

“A good tutor can make one’s college experience a revolutionary passage, to life as well as to literature; a bad one can make it…

— Steven Pressfield

My heroes are, above all, the great 19th-century Americans: Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson and the others. I love the way they think.

— Marilynne Robinson

“ Why , instead of teaching her poetry and drama and needlework, had her governesses not taught the most important lesson anyone could learn…

— Mary Balogh

“From this time I was most narrowly watched. If I was in a separate room any considerable length of time, I was sure to…

— Frederick Douglass

“Every line, every word was -- in the hackneyed metaphor which their dear writer, were she here, would forbid -- a dagger to my…

— Jane Austen

A lot of my activity in the theatre, and even in writing poems, was a kind of retrospective aggro on the English teacher who…

— Tony Harrison

I kept finding the same anguish, the same doubt; a self-contempt that neither irony nor intellect seemed able to deflect. Even DuBois’s learning and…

— Barack Obama