All canonical writing possesses the quality "of making you feel strangeness at home.

At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.

Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.

One reads for oneself and for strangers.

Originality must compound with inheritance.

The aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to the ancient Greeks.

The inventor knows HOW to borrow.

Persuasion is a strong but subdued outrider.

King die hard, in Shakespeare and in life.

Shakespeare's exquisite imagining belies our total inability to live in the present moment.

Reviewing bad books is bad for the character – WH Auden

We have to forego some good things in order to choose others that are better or best because they develop faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and strengthen our families.

...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.

What we dwell on much with our mind sinks into our heart and shapes our life.

As the world continually multiplies, are we in a generation where people are divided, or people are equal?

I have a passion for playing tennis and enjoy the workload and struggles of performing in this amazing global sport.

I'm just glad that my community has faith and confidence in me.

Discrimination involves reflection and absorption.

I appreciate individualism.

In ancient shadows and twilightsWhere childhood had strayed,The world's great sorrows were bornAnd its heroes were made.In the lost boyhood of JudasChrist was betrayed.

Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions, and governments themselves.