Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.

Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.

Every decoding is another encoding.

to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from one level of a text to another. The text unveils itself before us, but never allows itself to be possessed; and instead of trying to possess it we should take pleasure in its teasing

Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of one's peers.

I respect a man who can recognize a quotation. It's a dying art.

Life, after all, should go forwards, not backwards.