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 :
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