To keep a diary is to attempt a difficult literary form. Its effectiveness is likely to derive from a special blend of honesty and appetite for life that gives the power to record everyday happenings while magically freeing them from… — William Plomer Copy Share Image
The commonplace needs no defence,Dullness is in the critic's eyes,Without a licence life evolvesFrom some dim phase its own surprise;Under these yellow-twinkling elms,Behind these hedges trimly shorn,As in a stable once, so hereIt may be born, it may be born. — William Plomer Copy Share Image
It is a function of creative men to perceive the relations between thoughts, or things, or forms of expression that may seem utterly different,… — William Plomer Copy Share Image
Oh, the twenties and the thirties were not otherwise designedThan other times when blind men into ditches led the blind,When the rich mouse ate… — William Plomer Copy Share Image
To keep a diary is to attempt a difficult literary form. Its effectiveness is likely to derive from a special blend of honesty and… — William Plomer Copy Share Image
It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected. — William Plomer Copy Share Image
The commonplace needs no defence,Dullness is in the critic's eyes,Without a licence life evolvesFrom some dim phase its own surprise;Under these yellow-twinkling elms,Behind these… — William Plomer Copy Share Image
“It is the function of creative people to perceive relations between thoughts, or things, or forms of expressions that seem utterly different, and to… — William Plomer Copy Share Image
