Art Quote by Virginia Woolf

The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond the page. You can't make a…

— Simon Schama

“Miss Austen’s novels … seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above…

— Andrew Motion

Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip…

— Terry Eagleton

Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems to be…

— Andrew Motion

I've always loved Jane Austen's writing.

— Lily Collins

I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think Jane Austen is like Shakespeare, in a slightly different way. I think people will continue to revisit these stories because they remain…

— Josh O'Connor

Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.

— Mark Haddon

I think I made a mistake with [Jane] Austen by reading all six in a row. There are similarities to the plots so by…

— Stephen Dobyns

The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers.

— Harold Bloom

“I suspect that Jane Austen's practice of denying herself the aid of figurative language which, as much as any of her other habits of…

— Mary Lascelles