If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage
The what is so much more important than how.
It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.