"Shakespeare wouldn't have been any good if he'd stayed in Stratford. He had to go to London to be bathed in the full current of the Renaissance."

“In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.”

Source : allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”

“Put yourself in God’s hands and you can’t go wrong.”

“You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.”

“Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.”

“Mitt der Dummheit k a« mpfen G o« tter selbst vergebens. Even the gods themselves struggle in vain against stupidity.”

“There are two types of people in the world: people who are passionate about things, and people who've had their passion punched, beaten, or whatever out of them.”

“The main thing with triathlon is you've got to be as fit as you can. I train all year round.”

Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk

“Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.”

Source : Robert Neelly Bellah (1985). “Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life”, p.65, Univ of California Press