George Lyman Kittredge Quotes

American scholar, literary critic, and folklorist

George Lyman Kittredge (February 28, 1860 – July 23, 1941) was a scholar of English literature and a professor at Harvard University.

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A good sonnet appears to be a confession-in a word either patently artificial,and then it is bad ,or good,then it sounds like autobiography.

(On sexual intercourse:) The pleasure is momentary, the pains are infinite, and the posture is ridiculous.