Soup is cuisines kindest course

Yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.

I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.

On or about December 1910, human character changed.

Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?

... the random talk of people who have no chance of immortality and thus can speak their minds out has a setting, often, of lights, streets, houses, human beings, beautiful or grotesque, which will weave itself into the moment for ever.

Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.