"The poet should touch our heart by showing his own"

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Source : Sir Leslie Stephen (1919). “Hours in a Library: Charlotte Brontë. Charles Kingsley. Godwin and Shelley. Gray and his school. Sterne. Country books. George Eliot. Autobiography. Carlyle's ethics. The State trials. Coleridge”

Leslie Stephen

#Heart Quotes #Poet Quotes #Should Quotes

“I don't believe in an interventionist God”
“The most annoying thing I found was all the people pretending to be me on MySpace and Facebook. I'm not a member of either, but apparently there is an 'official' Nikki Sanderson MySpace page, complete with rants about how terrible identity fraud is, which is ironic.”
“As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too; and yet we, O foolish race! must try our very best to ape some one or two of our neighbors, whose ideas fit us no more than their breeches!”
“I like girls who are funny with a warped sense of humor.”
“Illiada by Homer is one of the great stories in literature. And I thought its themes really resonated today, whether that was my projection or Homer's intentions. It didn't seem like we had come very far.”
“What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?”
“Sometimes I envy religious people for the comfort of believing. It would make everything so much easier.”
“As I said this year, I didn't try to put any pressure on me by setting high goals or anything, I just want to make sure that every single time I'm out there on the court I do my best, I give 100%, and see where it's going to end up next year.”

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