For National Poetry Day 2014, here are our ten favourite quotes from writers, artists, and thinkers about poetry. If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. – Emily Dickinson The first man to compare […]
T. S. Eliot could be as witty as Wilde and as thought-provoking as Einstein with his one-liners, and so here are some choice quotes from this leading twentieth-century poet and all-round literary giant. Eliot’s life was a fascinating one: he was born on 26 September 1888 in Missouri, studied at […]
Today is International Literacy Day! What better time, then, to celebrate some of the wisest, wittiest, pithiest, silliest, and most profound things that writers have ever said about literature and reading? The following are 10 of our personal favourites from the last 21 months of Interesting Literature. These quotes (sorry, we […]
Some wise and witty quotes from the great Irish playwright, George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950). It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him. – Preface to Pygmalion When I was a young man I observed that nine out of every ten things I […]
What is life? The following ten quotes are our pick of the best from various writers. The quotes sum up our attitudes to life – mysterious, depressing, uplifting, and everything else betwixt and between. We hope you enjoy these quotes. You ask ‘What is life?’ That is the same as […]