I dare say I am compelled, unconsciously compelled, now to write volume after volume, as in past years I was compelled to go to sea, voyage after voyage. Leaves must follow upon each other as leagues used to follow in the days gone by, on and on to the appointed end, which, being truth itself, is one -- one for all men and for all occupations.
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
Poetry is life distilled.
Poetry is life distilled.
Literature is the question minus the answer.
Literature is the question minus the answer.
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive read more
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
Perish those who said our good things before we did.
Perish those who said our good things before we did.
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of a man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written.
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of a man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written.
If the radiance of a thousand sunsWere to burst at once into the skyThat would be like the splendor of read more
If the radiance of a thousand sunsWere to burst at once into the skyThat would be like the splendor of the Mighty one --I am become Death,The shatterer of Worlds. - Bhagavad Gita.
Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.
A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.
