Quotations by Philip Larkin

PHILIP LARKIN (1922–1985) WAS A RENOWNED POET AND NOVELIST IN POSTWAR ENGLAND. “So many things I had thought forgotten  Return to my mind with stranger pain: - Like letters that arrive addressed to someone Who left the house so many years ago.” ~ Philip Larkin, Why Did I Dream of You Last...

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Quotations by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1806-1861) IS ONE OF THE MOST CELEBRATED ENGLISH POETS OF THE VICTORIAN ERA. “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach” ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning, How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43) “Love me sweet With...

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Quotations by Herman Melville

HERMAN MELVILLE, A 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN NOVELIST, POET AND WRITER OF SHORT STORY, WHO IS REMEMBERED MOSTLY FOR HIS NOVEL MOBY-DICK. “Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it.” ~...

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Quotations by O. Henry

O. HENRY, THE PSEUDONYM OF WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER (1862 –1910), WAS A PROMINENT AMERICAN SHORT STORY WRITER, BEST KNOWN FOR HIS IRONIC PLOT TWISTS AND SURPRISE ENDINGS. “To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.” ~ O. Henry, A Retrieved Reformation “If men...

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