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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.

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’.

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.

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

The intolerable wrestle

Words strain,

Oh may I join the choir invisible

Fred’s studies are not very deep … he is only reading a novel.

There is music in the air.

Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen.

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.