A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
E. B. WhiteDemocracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to know what democracy is.
E. B. WhiteWhy is it, do you suppose, that an Englishman is unhappy until he has explained America?
E. B. WhiteA library is many things. It's a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It's a place to go if you want to sit and think. But particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books. If you want to find out about something, the information is in the reference books---the dictionaries, the encyclopedias, the atlases. If you like to be told a story, the library is the place to go.
E. B. White