Quotable Literary Quotes

 *Quotable Literary Quotes* 

 

 *Ben Johnson* 

   'To judge of Poets is only the faculty of Poets and not of all Poets but the best.'

 *Milton* 

  'Incessantly, and to us reading brings not,

  A spirit and judgement equal or superior.

  Uncertain and unsettled still remains,

  Deep-versed in book and shallow in  himself,

  Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys,

  And trifles for joyous matters, worth a sponge,

   As children gathering pebbles on the shore.'

 *Robert Browning* 

'Ah but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,

Or what's Heaven for?'

 *From Boswell's 'Life of Johnson'* 

'Sir, what is poetry?'

'Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what is not. We all know what light is;  but it is not easy to tell what it is.'

 *T.S.Eliot* 

  'The end of all our exploring,

   Will be to arrive where we started,

   And know the place for the first time.'

 *From William Shakespeare's 'Merchant of Venice'* 

'Life is a Shylock; always it demands,

The fullest usurer's interests for each pleasure.'

 *Alexander Pope* 

 A little learning is a dangerous thing ;

Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring :