Able Quote by Thomas Carlyle

O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do,…

— Thomas Carlyle

“Every work turns against its author: the poem will crush the poet, the system the philosopher, the event the man of action. Destruction awaits…

— Emil Cioran

He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.

— Thomas Carlyle

The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for courage, compassion…

— John Steinbeck

He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages.

— Christopher Pearse Cranch

The man who comes to writing late, but is in essence a writer, may sometimes gain as much as he has lost: his experience…

— Wright Morris

“O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee?…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero Karl Fried Muller

“But in those whom no necessity forces to turn Author, who merely write for fame, and have full leisure to polish their compositions, faults…

— Matthew Lewis

“The unknown characters of writing seem to be endowed with an evil of life of their own as though sentient, and fain would wrest…

— E. Hoffman Price

“The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty. He is a sovereign, and stands on the centre. For the world is not…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

— John Milton

He that is ambitious for his son, should give him untried names, For those have serv'd other men, haply may injure by their evils;…

— Martin Farquhar Tupper