Spenser Quotes

• I don't want to dis anybody, but someone like Robert Parker. I first read a Spenser book maybe 20 years ago and then read every one that came out. I did that with Tony Hillerman too.

  Dave Barry

  Libro, Años, Quiero

  Fuente: www.bostonglobe.com

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• Si lees sólo lo mejor, no tendrás necesidad de leer los demás libros, porque éstos no son más que un refrito de lo mejor y lo más antiguo. Leer en prosa a Shakespeare, Plato, Dante, Milton, Spenser, Chaucer y sus compatriotas, es leer en forma condensada lo que todos los demás han diluido.

  Anna Brackett

  PlatoLibro, Lectura

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• English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets,--Chaucer and Spenser and Milton, and even Shakespeare, included,--breathes no quite fresh and, in this sense, wild strain. It is an essentially tame and civilized literature, reflecting Greece and Rome. Her wildness is a greenwood, her wild man a Robin Hood. There is plenty of genial love of Nature, but not so much of Nature herself. Her chronicles inform us when her wild animals, but not the wild man in her, became extinct.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Animal, Men, Lakes

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Civil Disobedience & Other Essays - Premium Collection: 26 Political, Philosophical & Historical Essays: Slavery in Massachusetts, Life Without Principle, The Landlord, Walking, Sir Walter Raleigh, Paradise (to be) Regained, Herald of Freedom, A Plea for Captain John Brown, The Highland Light, Dark Ages…”, p.167, e-artnow

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• Un libro se convierte en un espejo en el que brilla el rostro del autor. El talento sólo da una imagen imperfecta, el destello quebrado de un rostro. Pero los rasgos del genio permanecen imperturbables. El tiempo guarda la sombra. La belleza, la Venus espiritual, cuyos hijos son los Tassos, los Spensers, los Bacons, respira la magia de su amor y fija el rostro para siempre.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Spiritual, Children, Book

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• The light of genius never sets, but sheds itself upon other faces, in different hues of splendor. Homer glows in the softened beauty of Virgil, and Spenser revives in the decorated learning of Gray.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Light, Different, Genius

  Robert Aris Willmott (1866). “Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature”, p.6

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• Natalie Spenser was giving a dinner. She was not an easy hostess.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Book, Giving, Dinner

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• Incluso los mejores escritos críticos sobre Emily Dickinson la subestiman. Es aterradora. Llegar a ella directamente desde Dante, Spenser, Blake y Baudelaire es encontrar su sadomasoquismo obvio y flagrante. Pájaros, abejas y manos amputadas son la materia vertiginosa de esta poesía. Dickinson es como el cultista homosexual que se viste de cuero negro y cadenas para dar visibilidad agresiva a la idea de masculinidad.

  Camille Paglia

  Escritura, Ideas, Manos

  "Sexual Personae: Arte y decadencia de Nefertiti a Emily Dickinson". Libro de Camille Paglia, 1990.

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• La iglesia misma tiene que salir de sus propias fronteras y llevar el evangelio a todas las criaturas, o no es iglesia de Cristo; y cualquier club de mejoramiento mutuo que piense que leyendo su Shakspearo, o actuando sus bonitos cuadros, o teniendo. está totalmente equivocado, a menos que, como parte esencial de su deber, salga al mundo, encuentre a los que están cayendo y los eleve a la majestad de hombres libres, que son hijos de Dios.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Fall, Reading, Son

  "Diccionario de palabras ardientes de escritores brillantes". Libro de Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay, and present praise. Lord Burleigh is not the only statesman who has thought one hundred pounds too much for a song, though sung by Spenser; although Oliver Goldsmith is the only poet who ever considered himself to have been overpaid.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Song, Writing, Pay

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.24

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• Inmortal Spenser, ¡ninguna fragilidad tiene tu fama sino la imputación de la amistad de este idiota!

  Thomas Nashe

  Idiot, Fame, Frailty

  1592 Strange News of the Intercepting Certain Letters.

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• ¡Alma de la época! El aplauso, el deleite, la maravilla de nuestro escenario. Mi Shakespeare, levántate; no te alojaré junto a Chaucer o Spenser, ni le diré a Beaumont que se acueste un poco más lejos, para hacerte una habitación; tú eres un monumento, sin tumba, y aún estás vivo, mientras tu libro viva, y tengamos ingenios que leer y alabanzas que rendir.

  Ben Jonson

  Art, Lying, Book

  Ben Jonson (1985). “Ben Jonson”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• A. E. Maxwell wrote one of the smartest, most consistent PI series in recent memory. Big plots, great villains, and a kickass private eye with plenty of humanity. The toughness of Robert B. Parker's early Spenser novels blended with the wry humor and scope of Ross Thomas. Wholly original, endlessly entertaining. The books of A. E. Maxwell are a forgotten treasure.

  Tim Maleeny

  Memories, Book, Eye

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• Conrad incluyó en la portada un epígrafe tomado de The Faerie Queene, de Edmund Spenser: "Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please".

  Joseph Conrad

  Tomado, Sueño, Mar

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• You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Dream, Business

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• Yeah. Floyd is his batman." His what?" Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant." You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don't make you money than anybody I know.

  Robert B. Parker

  Reading, Army, Stuff

  Robert B. Parker (2009). “Mortal Stakes”, p.167, Dell

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