Thursday, November 21, 2024 Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence.

M. H. Abrams

« All quotes from this author
 

It’s a pleasure that you don’t outgrow the anthology.

 
M. H. Abrams

» M. H. Abrams - all quotes »



Tags: M. H. Abrams Quotes, Authors starting by A


Similar quotes

 

The anthology meets with two different kinds of reactions in living poets. They will either write toward the anthology or away from it. Anti-anthology poets often overreach themselves, inflicting protective distortions on their work - as parents in old Central Europe often deliberately maimed their sons to save them from compulsory military service.

 
Laura Riding
 

We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.

 
John Lancaster Spalding
 

We outgrow love, like other things
And put it in the Drawer —
Till it an Antique fashion shows —
Like Costumes Grandsires wore.

 
Emily Dickinson
 

The truth is, I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure, knowing that this is the proper age of my life to do it; and out of my observation that most men that do thrive in the world, do forget to take pleasure during the time that they are getting their estate, but reserve that till they have got one, and then it is too late for them to enjoy it with any pleasure.

 
Samuel Pepys
 

One of the joys of teaching with the anthology is to watch the excitement grow as students, who may think the past dull and irrelevant, find how fresh and new and powerful are the kinds of writings that are hundreds of years old.

 
M. H. Abrams
© 2009–2013Quotes Privacy Policy | Contact