Category Letter

On Fame (Gerard Manley Hopkins)

“Fame in itself is nothing. The only thing that matters is virtue. Jesus Christ is the only true literary critic. But, from any lesser level or standard than that, we must recognize that fame is the true and appointed setting of men of genius.”

–Gerard Manley Hopkins
from a letter to Robert Bridges

on Letter-writing (Ernest Hemingway)

“…it’s such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you’ve done something.”

–from a letter from Ernest Hemingway to F. Scott Fitzgerald
found in At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays by Anne Fadiman

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