When the devout religion of mine eyeMaintains such falsehood, then turn tears to fires,And these, who, often drowned, could never die,Transparent heretics, be burnt for liars!One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sunNe’er saw her...

Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as whenThe bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix,Her ashes new-create another heirAs great in admiration as herself.

Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!

In my mind’s eye

I have not been nourished by English Literature. . . for the simple reason that I have never found much there in which to rest my heart (or heart and head together). I was brought...

In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a...

…the wise words of a friend and guide rang in my head. ‘How would you distinguish a true servant of God from a traitor?…You should take especial notice of how a person speaks, not of...

Donvel je bio poznat po jagodama, koje su bile izgovor za poziv; ali nikakav izgovor nije bio potreban; ovu damu bi i kupus namamio jer je samo želela da nekuda ide.

Nije isključeno da čovek može živeti i bez igranja. Poznati su i slučajevi u kojima su mladići i devojke proveli mnoge mesece, a da ni na kakvom balu nisu bili, štaviše, ni duh ni telo...

Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to be watching or reading about emotional crises among folk who live in a...

She’d become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.

What else can I do? Once you’ve gone this far you aren’t fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You’re overqualified, overspecialized, and everybody knows it. Nobody in any other game would be...

Libraries are always bigger on the inside because every book has an entire word inside of it.