Alone, lonely people talk to themselves. In company, they often continue.
Wallace Stevens: the Platonist celebrates endless change, but with regret.
There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.
Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger.
The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path.
Bored by safety, the lover grows jealous and exacting.