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- If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
- It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can…
- Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely…
- May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history…
- It is axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings…
- Who on earth invented the silly convention that it is boring or impolite to talk shop? Nothing is more interesting to listen to, especially if…
- Man desires to be free and he desires to feel important. This places him in a dilemma, for the more he emancipates himself from necessity…
- Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefers to dwell on what is absent, on what…
- Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a conviction…
- The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets…
- Behind the corpse in the reservoir, behind the ghost on the links, Behind the lady who dances and the man who madly drinks, Under the…
- How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the…
- Warm are the still and lucky miles, White shores of longing stretch away, A light of recognition fills The whole great day, and bright The…
- There's always another story. There's more than meets the eye.
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