Impersonal criticism?is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful.
The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.
. . . preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).
To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.
Comely was the town by the curving river that they dismantled in a year's time. Beautiful was Colleton in her last spring as she flung azaleas like a girl throwing rice at a desperate wedding. In dazzling profusion, Colleton ripened in a gauze of sweet gardens and the town ached beneath a canopy of promissory fragrance.
rudeness to Mrs. Dosely was like dropping a pat of butter on to a hot plate - it slid and melted away.
I'm really focused on These Days and I'm trying to take it as far as I can - I feel like it's a strong body of work. I just want to give it the ame kind of attention I give all my projects.
Kurt Cobain was, ladies and gentleman, I just - he was a worthless shred of human debris.