We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss, and the more wearing, continuous pain of frustration and failure; and have had moods of… — 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
Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations. — Elizabeth Drew Copy Share
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
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
Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation. — Elizabeth Drew Copy Share
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
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
The Republicans’ plan is that if they can’t buy the 2012 election they will steal it. — Elizabeth Drew Copy Share
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
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
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. — Elizabeth Drew Copy Share
The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon… — Elizabeth Drew Copy Share
Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits. — Elizabeth Drew Copy Share
