Quotes by Carlyle, Thomas

The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self. >>

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were cr >>

Work alone is noble. >>

Quotations about Literary Criticism

The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its l >>

The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- an >>

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeabl >>

We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.

Carlyle, Thomas