Arthur Quiller-Couch Quotes

#1. If your language is confused, your intellect, if not your whole character, will almost certainly correspond.

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#2. Just go on reading, as well as you can, and be sure that when the children get the thrill of the story, for which you wait, they will be asking more questions, and pertinent ones, than you are able to answer.

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#3. I am mistaken if a single epigram included fails to preserve at least some faint thrill of the emotion through which it had to pass before the Muse's lips let it fall, with however exquisite deliberation.

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#4. We make our discoveries through our mistakes: we watch one another's success: and where there is freedom to experiment there is hope to improve.

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#5. You can see the meaning of the statement that "Literature is a living art" most easily and clearly, perhaps, by contrasting Science and Art at their two extremes - say Pure Mathematics and Acting. Science as a rule deals with things, Art with man's thought and emotion about things.

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#6. O pastoral heart of England! like a psalm Of green days telling with a quiet beat.

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#7. Trust in good verse then:
They only shall aspire,
When pyramids, as men
Are lost i'the funeral fire.

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