The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.

Poetry contains nothing haphazard.

The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.

Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.

Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.

Proust has listed a great many reasons why it is impossible to be happy, but, in the course of being happy, one finds it difficult to remember them.

The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry.