If the radiance of a thousand suns Were to burst at once into the sky That would be like the splendor of the Mighty one — I am become Death, The shatterer of Worlds. – Hindu Spiritual
Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all On Fire. – Dante Alighieri
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us. – Jane Austen
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us. – Charles Baudelaire
This lifes dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye. – William Blake
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike – Harold Bloom
The great Creator to revere Must sure become the creature; But still the preaching cant forbear, And evn the rigid feature: Yet neer with wits profane to range Be complaisance extended;An atheist laughs a poor exchange For deity offended. – Robert Burns
Tis pleasant, sure, to see ones name in print. A books a book, although theres nothing in t. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron
In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the worlds Priest; — guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time. – Thomas Carlyle
Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes. – Miguel de Cervantes
Over the river and through the wood, To grandfathers house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow. – Lydia Maria Child
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. – Elizabeth Drew
The people have a right supreme To make their kings, for Kings are made for them. All Empire is no more than Powr in Trust, Which when resumd, can be no longer just. Successionm for the general good designd, In its own wrong a Nation cannot bind. – John Dryden
This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish Ill know how it turned out. – Nora Ephron
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep And miles to go before I sleep. – Robert Frost
Yet ah! why should they know their fate? Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies. Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, Tis folly to be wise. – Thomas Gray
It was a pleasant caf – Ernest Hemingway
At last is Hector stretchd upon the plain, Who feard no vengeance for Patroclus slain: Then, Prince! You should have feard, what now you feel; Achilles absent was Achilles still: Yet a short space the great avenger stayed, Then low in dust thy strength and glory laid. – Homer
Prometheus is action. Hamlet is hesitation. In Prometheus the obstacle is exterior; in Hamlet it is interior. In Prometheus the will is securely nailed down by nails of brass and cannot get loose; besides, it has by its side two watchers – Victor Hugo
