Books Quote by Elizabeth Drew

“It is important to remember now, amid all this debris, how frightened we used to be.”

— Elizabeth Drew

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.

— Elizabeth Drew

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

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

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.

— Elizabeth Drew

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

[On newspapers:] A first draft of history.

— Elizabeth Drew

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

The Republicans’ plan is that if they can’t buy the 2012 election they will steal it.

— Elizabeth Drew

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

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

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

— Elizabeth Drew