„Of all I have ever seen or learned, that book seems to me the noblest, the wisest, and the most powerful expression of man’s life upon this earth — and also the highest flower of poetry, eloquence, and truth. I am not given to dogmatic judgments in the matter of literary creation, but if I had to make one I could say that Ecclesiastes is the greatest single piece of writing I have ever known, and the wisdom expressed in it the most lasting and profound.“

— Thomas Wolfe

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„I am a passionate admire of Sappho, but that has to be one of the stupidest sentences I have ever seen in a scholarly book.“
— Camille Paglia
„What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.“
— Walt Whitman