The definition of hell is a place where nothing connects with nothing.

Upon the glazen shelves kept watch Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith The army of unalterable law.

Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more than we knew before, when we feel we have - by some manner of a leap - encountered the truth. That, by the logic of art, is always worth the pain.

There is no such thing as a lost cause, because there is no such thing as a gained cause

Only through time time is conquered

The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.

After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities.