Literature and Words

One that excels the quirks of blazoning pens.

Charm ache with air and agony with words.

Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rime.

Words! book-words! what are you?

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat; But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world’s eyes As though they’d wrought it. Song, let them take it, For there’s more enterprise In walking naked.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

Remarks are not literature.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance.

Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it .

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

“N EVER READ a book, Johnnie, and you will be a rich man.”

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully

He koude songes make and wel endyte.

But for your words, they rob the Hybla bees, And leave them honeyless.

I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so In whining poetry.

Apt words have power to suage The tumors of a troubled mind.

The proper study of mankind is books.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

But the Troian gestes, as they felle, In Omer, or in Dares, or in Dite, Whoso that kan may rede hem as they write.

The author makes his readers, just as he makes his characters.

These trees shall be my books.

A rhapsody of words.