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One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.

The Unemployed Fortune-Teller: Essays and Memoirs

Matthew Arnold made the horrible prophecy that literature would increasingly replace religion.

On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

... since the history of words is a mainspring of our intellectual and emotional character.

The House of True Desire: Essays on Life and Literature

In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.

Constance Baker Motley

If an essay has a 'motive,' it is linked more to happenstance and opportunity than to the driven will. A genuine essay is not a doctrinaire tract or a propaganda effort or a broadside.

Cynthia Ozick

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Collected Essays Of Thomas Henry Huxley

History warns us ... that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

Collected Essays Of Thomas Henry Huxley

For if the truth were known, Love cannot speak, But only thinks and does; Though surely out 'twill leak Without the help of Greek, Or any tongue.

Collected Essays and Poems

Creative activity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Drinkers of Infinity: Essays 1955-1967

A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.

An Essay on Criticism

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest. The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.

An Essay on Man

What Helen of Troy did in her spare time and what she was 'really like' are not questions that torture us.

Forty-one False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers

By reading older books we get a taste of the conversation of Heaven.

The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization

One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.

Best Words, Best Order: Essays on Poetry

If you do wrestle with it and find the spring of its opening it will be a place to rest in all the days of your life.

Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery

Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.

Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991

The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi’s poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.

Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.

Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

Freedom rings bells to wake us from the comfort of beautiful dreams and empower the efforts that turn them into reality.

Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

There are no perfect life plan formulas. It’s a roller coaster with various exit ramps.

Instant Connections: Essays and Interviews on Photography