The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection. — Elizabeth Drew Copy Share Image
“It is important to remember now, amid all this debris, how frightened we used to be.” — Elizabeth Drew Copy Share Image
Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations. — Elizabeth Drew Copy Share Image
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind"… — Elizabeth Drew Copy Share Image
The pain of loss, moreover, however agonizing, however haunting in memory, quiets imperceptibly into acceptance as the currents of active living and of fresh… — Elizabeth Drew Copy Share Image
Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation. — Elizabeth Drew Copy Share Image
Language is like soil. However rich, it is subject to erosion, and its fertility is constantly threatened by uses that exhaust itsvitality. It needs… — Elizabeth Drew Copy Share Image
How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of its own,… — Elizabeth Drew Copy Share Image
The Republicans’ plan is that if they can’t buy the 2012 election they will steal it. — Elizabeth Drew Copy Share Image
We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of… — Elizabeth Drew Copy Share Image
Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda for something.… — Elizabeth Drew Copy Share Image
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. — Elizabeth Drew Copy Share Image