But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.
- John UpdikeBiography lends to death a new terror.
- Oscar WildeI can find my biography in every fable that I read
- Ralph Waldo EmersonThere is properly no history; only biography
- Ralph Waldo Emerson"Reading history is good for all of us," he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his rationale is a fresh, somewhat bracing thought: "If you know history, you know that there is no such thing as a self-made man or self-made woman. We are shaped by people we have never met. Yes, reading history will make you a better citizen and more appreciative of the law, and of freedom, and of how the economy works or doesn`t work, but it is also an immense pleasure'”the way art is, or music is, or poetry is. And it`s never stale."
- David C. McCulloughThe biographer who writes the life of his subject`s self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.
- Leon EdelOnce the implicit aim of biography was to uplift now it is to unveil.
- Mark FeeneyThe best biographies leave their readers with a sense of having all but entered into a second life and of having come to know another human being in some ways better than he knew himself.
- Mary CableBiography is the only true history
- Thomas Carlyle"Mine is a simple story. It is the story of an ordinary life that became extraordinary."
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