Guido

“It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Master of Ballantrae

“I shall unlearn feeling,
unlearn my gift. That is greater
and harder than what passes there for life.”
― Derek Walcott

“Non debbo sperare niente. Scrivo questa frase e mi viene un'idea che è una speranza.”
― Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel

“I have one word to say upon the subject of profound writers, who are grown very numerous of late; and I know very well the judicious world is resolved to list me in that number. I conceive therefore, as to the business of being profound, that it is with writers as with wells; a person with good eyes may see to the bottom of the deepest, provided any water be there; and often, when there is nothing in the world at the bottom, besides dryness and dirt, though it be but a yard and half under ground, it shall pass however for wondrous deep, upon no wiser a reason than because it is wondrous dark.”
― Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub