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There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.
When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he read more
When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he was born for literature.
Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
The great Cham of literature. (Samuel Johnson)
The great Cham of literature. (Samuel Johnson)
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.