Walter Raleigh (professor) (1861–1922) British academic
p. 174 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=yale.39002032470974;view=1up;seq=190 <br class="br">English Voyages of the Sixteenth Century (1906)
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“Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches.”
T. E. Hulme (1883–1917) English Imagist poet and critic
As quoted in Notes of T E Hulme, Imagism & Imagists (1931) by Glenn Hughes
Sophocles (-496–-406 BC) ancient Greek tragedian
Variant: Look upon him, O my Thebans, on your king, the child of fame!<br>This mighty man, this Œdipus the lore far-famed could guess,<br>And envy from each Theban won, so great his lordliness—<br>Lo to what a surge of sorrow and confusion hath he come!<br>Let us call no mortal happy till our eyes have seen the doom<br>And the death-day come upon him—till, unharassed by mischance,<br>He pass the bound of mortal life, the goal of ordinance.<br>[ Tr. E. D. A. Morshead http://books.google.com/books?id=i7wXAAAAYAAJ (1885)] <br class="br">Variant: People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus.<br>He solved the famous riddle, with his brilliance,<br>he rose to power, a man beyond all power.<br>Who could behold his greatness without envy?<br>Now what a black sea of terror has overwhelmed him.<br>Now as we keep our watch and wait the final day,<br>count no man happy till he dies, free of pain at last.<br>[quoted by Thomas Cahill in Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea] <br class="br">Source: Oedipus Rex, Line 1529, Choragos.
“Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Walter Savage Landor, from The Dial, XII
L. K. Samuels (1951) American writer
Source: Ferret: The Reluctant King (2020), p. 138
“To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.”
George Washington (1732–1799) first President of the United States
Samuel Butler book The Way of All Flesh
Source: The Way of All Flesh (1903), Ch. 14
Context: Every man’s work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he tries to conceal himself the more clearly will his character appear in spite of him.