Category: Lit & Crit

Tetman Callis 0 Comments 7:16 am

“A man is master of his liberty; time is their master; and, when they see time, they’ll go or come.” – William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

Tetman Callis 0 Comments 6:44 am

“Lovers’ hours are long, though seeming short: if pleas’d themselves, others, they think, delight in such like circumstance, with such like sport: their copious stories, oftentimes begun, end without audience, and are never done.” – William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis

Tetman Callis 0 Comments 6:54 am

“Where Love reigns, disturbing Jealousy doth call himself Affection’s sentinel; gives false alarms, suggesteth mutiny, and in a peaceful hour doth cry, ‘kill, kill;” distempering gentle Love in his desire.” – William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis

Tetman Callis 0 Comments 7:04 am

“Things out of hope are compass’d oft with venturing, chiefly in love, whose leave exceeds commission: affection faints not like a pale-fac’d coward.” – William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis

Tetman Callis 0 Comments 7:23 am

“Affection is a coal that must be cool’d; else, suffer’d, it will set the heart on fire: the sea hath bounds, but deep desire hath none.” – William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis

Tetman Callis 0 Comments 6:45 am

“Upon the earth’s increase why shouldst thou feed, unless the earth with thy increase be fed? By law of Nature thou are bound to breed, that thine may live, when thou thyself art dead; and so in spite of death thou dost survive, in that thy likeness still is left alive.” – William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis

Tetman Callis 0 Comments 7:34 am

“Torches are made to light, jewels to wear, dainties to taste, fresh beauty for the use, herbs for their smell, and sappy plants to bear; things growing to themselves are growth’s abuse.” – William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis

Tetman Callis 0 Comments 7:24 am

“Make use of time, beauty within itself should not be wasted: fair flowers that are not gather’d in their prime rot and consume themselves in little time.” – William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis

Tetman Callis 0 Comments 8:20 am

“No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written. He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.” – T. S. Eliot, “The Art of Poetry,” Paris Review

Tetman Callis 0 Comments 6:46 am

“After a period of getting away from the traditional forms, comes a period of curiosity in making new experiments with traditional forms. This can produce very good work if what has happened in between has made a difference: when it’s not merely going back, but taking up an old form, which has been out of use for a time, and making something new with it.” – T. S. Eliot, “The Art of Poetry,” Paris Review

Tetman Callis 0 Comments 6:34 am

“Unheedful vows may heedfully be broken; and he wants wit that wants resolved will to learn his wit to exchange the bad for better.” – William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.6

Tetman Callis 0 Comments 7:00 am

“Maids, in modesty, say No to that which they would have the profferer construe Ay.” – William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona 1.2 (emphasis in original)

Tetman Callis 0 Comments 7:42 am

“The understanding of art depends finally upon one’s willingness to extend one’s humanity and one’s knowledge of human life.” – Ralph Ellison, “The Art of Fiction,” Paris Review

Tetman Callis 0 Comments 7:01 am

“As the most forward bud is eaten by the canker ere it blow, even so by love the young and tender wit is turn’d to folly; blasting in the bud, losing his verdure even in the prime, and all the fair effects of future hopes.” – William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona 1.1

Tetman Callis 0 Comments 6:44 am

“To be in love, where scorn is bought with groans; coy looks with heart-sore sighs; one fading moment’s mirth with twenty watchful, tedious nights: if haply won, perhaps a hapless gain; if lost, why then a grievous labour won; however, but a folly bought with wit, or else a wit by folly vanquished.” – William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona 1.1

Tetman Callis 0 Comments 7:16 am

“Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devis’d at first to keep the strong in awe.” – William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King Richard III 5.3

Tetman Callis 0 Comments 7:22 am

“Why should calamity be full of words? Windy attorneys to their client woes, airy succeeders of intestate joys, poor breathing orators of miseries let them have scope: though what they do help nothing else, yet do they ease the heart.” – William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King Richard III 4.4

Tetman Callis 0 Comments 7:44 am

“Fearful commenting is leaden servitor to dull delay; delay leads impotent and snail-pac’d beggary.” – William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King Richard III 4.4

Tetman Callis 0 Comments 6:43 am

“When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks; when great leaves fall, then winter is at hand; when the sun sets, who doth not look for night? Untimely storms make men expect a dearth.” – William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King Richard III 2.3