Fame is a form, perhaps the worst form, of incomprehension.
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
i walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?