David Teems

“A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections

“Excellence does not require perfection.”
― Henry James

“True criticism is the reflection of the thing criticized upon the spirit of the critic”
― Arthur Hobson Quinn, Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography

“Parts are not to be examined till the whole has been surveyed; there is a kind of intellectual remoteness necessary for the comprehension of any great work in its full design and its true proportions; a close approach shews the smaller niceties, but the beauty of the whole is discerned no longer.”
― Samuel Johnson, Preface to Shakespeare