One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live together in harmony and to help one another.
Gerald BrenanWe should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not our own.
Gerald BrenanThe clichรฉ is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichรฉs, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.
Gerald BrenanThose who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.
Gerald Brenan