Sarojini Naidu (1879–1949) Indian politician, governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh from 1947 to 1949
Aurobindo said on her poetry quoted in Critical Response To Indian Poetry In English, p123/xxxx
Source: On Tulsidas’s epic Ramacharritamanas, P.E.Keay in "A Garden of Deeds: Ramacharitmanas, a Message of Human Ethics", p. 35
Sarojini Naidu (1879–1949) Indian politician, governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh from 1947 to 1949
Aurobindo said on her poetry quoted in Critical Response To Indian Poetry In English, p123/xxxx
“Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant;
the only harmless great thing.”
John Donne (1572–1631) English poet
Marcel Proust book In Search of Lost Time
Tout ce que nous connaissons de grand nous vient des nerveux. Ce sont eux et non pas d'autres qui ont fondé les religions et composé les chefs-d'œuvre.
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Volume I
In Search of Lost Time, Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol III: The Guermantes Way (1920)
“The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to live with purpose.”
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
Hayden White (1928–2018) American historian
"The fictions of factual representation"
“The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.”
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker
Source: Le Potomak : Précédé d'un Prospectus 1916
“Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.”
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919) American artist, writer and activist
Source: City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology