Emily > Emily's Quotes

“We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.”
― John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman

“It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.”
― George Eliot, Daniel Deronda

“There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.”
― George Eliot, Daniel Deronda