Anthony M. Esolen Quotes

For those of you who may be homeschooled: high school is that four-year asylum where they put teenagers because we have no idea what else to do with them.

The first good news for all of us, the first joyful story of our lives, is that there is a story at all, and an Author who has loved us into being.

Many of the greatest books are like a forest. “The best way to get to know them is to wander right into the middle and get lost.

For the first time in human history, most people are doing things that could never interest a child enough to want to tag along. That says less about the child than about us.

We would – or at least we should – take upon ourselves the ultimate task of our poet: to seek the face of God.

Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and inconsequential, but because they are as enormous as life itself.