English

"...some things are better left in the past. And true things are destined to repeat themselves."

🇺🇸William Trufant Foster

Politics

1879–1950

"The reference to the source of authority should be definite. Such vague phrases as the following, common though they are, are worthless as proof : —"

🇺🇸John Algeo

Literature

1930–2019

"Theosophy holds that all things, including the human mind, are evolving. We are in the midst of an unfinished world and are ourselves unfinished."

🇺🇸Roxane Gay

Literature

b. 1974

"There is a before and an after…In the after I was broken, shattered, and silent."

🇺🇸X. J. Kennedy

Literature

1929–2026

"I am one of the endangered species: people who still write in meter and rime."

🇺🇸Billy Collins

Literature

b. 1941

"It is important for the poet not to be emotional because you cannot see the world clearly with tears in your eyes."

"Strictly speaking, the grammatical method of resolving a sentence into parts is nothing but a fanciful procedure ; but it is the real fountain of all knowledge, since it led to the invention of writing."

🇺🇸Sofia Samatar

Education

b. 1971

"Words are sublime, and in books we may commune with the dead. Beyond this there is nothing true, no voices we can hear."