A . . . poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.

Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius.

A . . . poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.

I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future . . . I felt myself to be, for an unknown period of time, an abstract perceiver of the world.

His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further.

We have shared out, like thieves, the amazing treasures of days and nights.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.