If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
where the dead walked and the living were made of cardboard.
A little light, like a rushlight / to lead back to splendour.
The rustling of the silk is discontinued, Dust drifts over the courtyard, There is not sound of footfall, and the leaves Scurry into heaps and lie still, And she the rejoicer of the heart is beneath them: A wet leaf that clings to the threshold.