There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.
There is a form of literature that is a deed, and a form that is only talk, and the latter passes away like a conversation.
The first degree of proficiency is, in painting, what grammar is in literature, a general preparation for whatever the student may afterward choose for more particular application. The power of drawing, modeling, and using colors, is very properly called the language of the art.
Jesters do often prove prophets.
There is a vast difference between how things seem from the outside and how they feel on the inside.
The whole of the Amazonian narcotic complex, as it's called in the old literature, is based on activation of DMT by one strategy or another.
Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom.
There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them.
Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.
Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.
Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle
that sunlight of the dead which is called literature.
For the twenty million Americans who are hungry tonight, for the homeless freezing tonight, literature is as useless as a knowledge of astronomy.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
I also found being called Sir rather silly.
The Vedic literature opens to us a chapter in what has been called the education of the human race to which we can find no parallel anywhere else.
I suspect people channel-surf, as they tend to everywhere. But I'm told that we're not much on at the State Department, so we'll have to look into that.
Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
I will not take "but" for an answer.