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- Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. — T. S. Eliot
- Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. — George Bernard Shaw
- The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. — Gustave Flaubert
- One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness. — Gustave Flaubert
- Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work. — Gustave Flaubert