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Andrew Lang

Literature

1844–1912

"Custom and Myth - full text HTML of original work."

🇵🇹Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

Literature

1919–2004

"Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen at Poetry International Web"

Christian David Ginsburg

1831–1914

"The Kabbalah was first taught by God himself to a select company of angels, who formed a theosophic school in Paradise."

🇷🇺Victor Serge

Literature

1901–1941

"All right, I can see the broken eggs. Now where's this omelette of yours?"

Wilhelm von Humboldt

Philosophy

German new humanism

1767–1835

"The inquiry into the proper aims and limits of State agency must be of the highest importance—nay, that it is perhaps more vitally momentous than any other political question."

Lafcadio Hearn

Literature

1850–1904

"He is the writer in our language who can best be compared with Hans Christian Andersen and the brothers Grimm."

🇬🇧Arthur Symons

Literature

1865–1945

"What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves.... He must have the passion of a lover."

🇺🇸Jhumpa Lahiri

Literature

b. 1967

"My grandfather always says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. “To travel without moving an inch."

🇺🇸Richard Wilbur

Literature

1921–2017

"The World is Fundamentally a Great Wonder" : Richard Wilbur in Conversation with Arlo Haskell Littoral"

🇺🇸Emma Lazarus

Literature

1849–1887

"I seem to have always one little window looking but into life."

🇧🇬Parteniy Zografski

Religion

1818–1876

"Our language, as it is well known, is divided into two main dialects, of which one is spoken in Bulgaria and Thrace, and the other one in Macedonia."

🇺🇸Eknath Easwaran

Religion

1910–1999

"We all need joy, and we can all receive joy in only one way, by adding to the joy of others."

🇺🇸Mark Strand

Literature

1934–2014

"I don't know where it comes from. I think some of it comes from the unconscious. Sometimes it is more complete than other times."