Book Canon

Famous quotes containing the words book and/or canon:

    “We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “There is a Canon which confines
    A Rhymed Octosyllabic Curse
    If written in Iambic Verse
    To fifty lines.”
    —Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953)