'The bourgeois often likens the imaginative man to a madman. He rightly suspects that he himself would go mad if he were to confront his own depths as an...
The Grave of Shelley by Oscar Wilde LIKE burnt-out torches by a sick man's bed Gaunt cypress-trees stand round the sun-bleached stone; Here doth the little...
'Very recently I spent a veritable day of consecration reading PROMETHEUS UNBOUND. If the poet is not a real genius, I do not know what a real genius is; it...
True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genii. Puzant Kevork Thomajan What is the difference between an ordinary mind and one...
'When i speak of genius as a biological problem, I mean that genius, as exemplified in truly outstanding men, almost always has a tragic life and lives in the...
The Nobel Prize in Literature - Laureates 2005 Harold Pinter 2004 Elfriede Jelinek 2003 J.M. Coetzee 2002 Imre Kertész 2001 V.S. Naipaul 2000 Gao Xingjian ...
William Butler Yeats – Banquet Speech William Butler Yeats's speech at the Nobel Banquet at Grand Hôtel, Stockholm, December 10, 1923 I have been all my...
Albert Camus – Banquet Speech English French Albert Camus' speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1957 (Translation) In...
From 'Footsteps' by Richard Holmes: '...I craved after intimacy with my subject, knowing all the time I must maintain an objective and judicial stance. I came...
'Leonardos only characteristics of a great person were the ability to inspire through his art. He could also work under pressure when he had not worked on a...
Where are all the famous women artists? From Shelley Esaak, An Open Letter to Younger Sisters Dear Young Friends, It has come to my attention that some of you,...
http://www.walrus.com/~gibralto/acorn/germ/PRB.html Best site about the Pre-Raphaelites and their circle including a discussion of the artists models, their...
'...But furthermore, I do not see, and never could see, why a man of genius must needs be a man of genius every minute of his life. Cannot he work as well as...
"I cannot help thinking that it does not matter what goes into the Clarion this week, because William Morris is dead. And what socialist will care for any...
"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful." "Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very...
"...It is to be noted also that Individualism does not come to man with any sickly cant about duty, which merely means doing what other people want because...
'As regards the pre-Raphaelites the story is simple enough. In the year 1847 a number of young men in London, poets and painters, passionate admirers of Keats...
'...In 1848 the British School of Painting was in anything but a vital or a lively condition. One very great and incomparable genius, Turner, belonged to it....
1) William Morris, Art, Wealth and Riches (1883) I will, with your leave, tell the chief things which I really I want to see changed, lest I should seem to...
Edna St. Vincent Millay - Interim The room is full of you!—As I came in And closed the door behind me, all at once A something in the air, intangible, Yet...
'...Millay had a genius for self-presentation: At least one reporter of the time called her the ultimate embodiment of the "poet-girl." She had highly public...
EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886) The Soul selects her own Society-- Then--shuts the Door-- To her divine Majority--Present no more-- Unmoved--she notes the...
'There was a whispering in the breeze about the suffering of trees; of woodsman's axe and cruel blade that on the earth had down them laid. Each stately tree...
I love thee, Baby! for thine own sweet sake; Those azure eyes, that faintly dimpled cheek, Thy tender frame, so eloquently weak, Love in the sternest heart of...
...A few days later I had a letter from Mrs Grainger, Percy's mother, arranging an appointment. Percy was going to hear me play. He, and his mother, were then...
...I shall not be able to apparoach an understanding of Percy without approaching Rose. As I see it, mother and son represent a remarkable, congrous and...
ROUGE BOUQUET In a wood they call Rouge Bouquet There is a new-made grave today. Built by never a spade nor pick Yet covered with earth 40 meters thick. There...
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