Lytton Strachey
Lytton Strachey
Giles Lytton Stracheywas a British writer and critic...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionCritic
Date of Birth1 March 1880
Lytton Strachey quotes about
art ignorance perfection
Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
poet
It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.
independent past important
Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal process──which is eternal, and must be felt for its own sake.
writing men creation-of-man
Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.
brilliant english-critic france francis government original strong vital
In France particularly, under the strong and brilliant government of Francis I, there was an outburst of original and vital writing.