In the end is my beginning.
Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.
Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.
No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality.
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards.