English Archives

Dwight Lindley

“—My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel—it is, before all, to make you see. That—and no more, and it is everything. If I succeed, you shall find there according to your deserts: encouragement, consolation, fear, charm—all you demand—and, perhaps, also that glimpse of truth for which you have forgotten to ask.” —Joseph Conrad

Patricia R. Bart

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Kelly Scott Franklin

I think literature, like all art, speaks not simply to the rational part of people but to the whole person—the heart included. What we consume shapes us into who we are.

Benedict Whalen

“While I always took great delight in literature, a particularly strong set of classes in my undergraduate institution led me to realize how little I then knew, and how greatly I wanted to know.”