“A Word is Dead
A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.”
― The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.”
― The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
“To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss.”
― Rationalism in Politics and other essays
― Rationalism in Politics and other essays
“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”
― Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood
― Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood
“There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.”
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“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
― No Man Is an Island
― No Man Is an Island
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