Irish quotes and aphorisms
Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must. (Irish quotes and aphorisms) Samuel Beckett …
The book of nonsense
The book of nonsense and limericks by Edward Lear for children and grown-ups. A limerick is a stanza of five lines, very common in Anglo-Saxon countries. Its subject is either very innocent …
The nature and essence of literature
The nature and essence of literature. A short summary of English and American Literary and Historic Topics, with great quotes and aphorisms. (with a pdf file) Every interpretation of a text is …
Thoughts about literature
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike – and I don’t think there really is a distinction between the two – are always dominated by fools, knaves, …
Matthew Arnold On Poetry
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) He was a famous poet and essayist of Victorian England. In his Essays in Criticism as well as in his other prose-writings Arnold tried to break down the prejudices …
Mencken quotes and aphorisms
Henry Louis Mencken famous quotes, aphorisms and thoughts part 2 by the World of English blog and Carl William Brown Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are …
Tristran Tzara Philosophy
Philosophy is the question: from which side shall we look at life, God, the idea or other phenomena. Everything one looks at is false. I do not consider the relative result more …
A Poem on Death
Death by Emily Dickinson Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew no haste, And …