“One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.”
― Best Words, Best Order: Essays on Poetry
― Best Words, Best Order: Essays on Poetry
“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.”
― 1984
― 1984
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin
― Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin
“But here there was only hot swing music and liquor, dance halls, ban, and movies, and sex that hung in the gloom like a chandelier and flooded the world with brief, deceptive rainbows.”
― The Glass Menagerie
― The Glass Menagerie
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