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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he, alone among creatures, has an inexhaustible voice but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.

The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.

Everything has two handles, by one of which it ought to be carried and by the other not.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Language is fossil poetry.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Art is a jealous mistress.

In the seventeenth century a dissociation of sensibility set in, from which we have never recovered.

Someone said: ‘The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.’ Precisely, and they are that which we know.

The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an ‘objective correlative’.

The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an ‘objective correlative’.

O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag—

The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne,

I gotta use words when I talk to you.

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?

No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;

In the room the women come and go

Speech impelled us

Words strain,