“Lives do not have plots, only biographies do.”
― The Hunter Gracchus: And Other Papers on Literature and Art
― The Hunter Gracchus: And Other Papers on Literature and Art
“I think that love must be the ability to suspend one's intelligence for the sake of something. At the basis of love therefore must live imagination.”
― Elbow Room
― Elbow Room
“The poet and poetess have always had a rough time of it in the Republic. It has ever been their endemic luck to starve, become a Harvard professor, commit suicide, lose their reading glasses before an audience of sophomores, go upon the people a la Barnum, and serve as homework in state universities, where they could in nowise get a position and where their presence usually scatters the English faculty like a truant officer among the Amish.”
― The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays
― The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays
“A day will come when men will discover an alphabet in the eyes of chalcedonies, in the markings of the moth, and will learn in astonishment that every spotted snail has always been a poem.”
― The Lost Steps
― The Lost Steps
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