Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequenter: grasp the words, and the subject will follow.

The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.

Authors frequently say things they are unaware of; only after they have gotten the reactions of their readers do they discover what they have said

Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.

A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands.

I am an old consumer of papers. I cannot avoid reading my newspapers every morning.

What we honor as prudence in our elders is simply panic in action.