A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.
[...] to me a new book was not one of a number of similar objects, but was like an individual man, unmatched, and with no cause of existence beyond himself [...]
A book is no mere book anymore than man can be mere man. A book was like an individual man, unmatched and with no cause of existence beyond himself.
It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions
The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.
One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.
In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.
Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed.
As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive.
Wars should be fought with words, not bombs, not weapons. And calm words. I think that wars should be fought over a chessboard and a cup of something to drink.
There can be many different views of what Heaven is like, because Heaven is whatever makes each person eternally and fully happy.
I left the Midwest when I was twelve years old, and I haven't lived in a small town since.
The more you learn about animals and animal rights - it's an intriguing, fascinating world.
If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.
When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.
Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.
and sometimes I sit down at my typewriter and I think not of someone cause there isn't anyone to think about and i wonder is it worth it
For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.
Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.
The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.
Just because you have star power and a huge marketing budget, you can see from some professional web series, it doesn't equal views.
