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(By I I mean iambics willed and neat;
I mean by I God’s image made uncouth;
By eye I... More
(I remember my mother, my mother,
A stiff wind halted outside,
In the hard ear my... More
(Why should the aged eagle stretch its wings?) More
... a tin-horn politician with the manner of a rural corn doctor and the mien of a ham actor. More
... all
In the interests of this pornographic masterpiece,
Variegated, polluted... More
... hurled religiously
Upon your business of humility
Into the iron forestries of hell.... More
... last night, to let you toss alone,
When from your arms I kept my cold desire. More
... like a
Wave on a beach, that thinks it’s had this
Tremendous idea, coming to crash... More
... that there is no other way,
That the history of creation proceeds according... More
... the bold care of an ecstatic trull
Who rearranges with impartial feet
The silence in... More
... the first step of the terrible journey toward feeling somebody should act, that ends in utter... More
... the girls who came at dawn
To pay a visit to the young child, and how, when he grew up to... More
... the whole Wilsonian buncombe ... its ideational hollowness, its ludicrous strutting and... More
... through it
The roar of time plunging unchecked through the sluices
Of the days,... More
... with autumn falling over everything;
The plush leaves the chattels in barrels
Of an... More
... with dozens of as yet
Unrealized projects, and a strict sense
Of time running out, of... More
...that absolutely everything beloved and cherished of the bourgeoisie, the conservative, the... More
A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman. More
A bat is born
Naked and blind and pale.
His mother makes a pocket of her tail
And... More
A beautiful sentence is beautiful, and a beautiful flower is beautiful, but their duration is... More
A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent. More
A black pall, you know, with a silver cross on it, or R.I.P.—requiescat in pace—you know.... More
A blank helpless sort of face, rather like a rose just before you drench it with D.D.T. More
A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is... More
A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income. More
A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or... More
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself... More
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. More
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain... More
A cold coming we had of it,
Just the worst time of the year
For a journey, and such a... More
A coma that is a white, interesting country ... More
A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else. More
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. More
A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated. More
A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true... More
A country where every citizen is free to suppress liberty. More
A Dandy does nothing. More
A family on the throne is an interesting idea.... It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the... More
A filmy trash
Litters the black woods with the death
Of men; and one last... More
A fit abode for a poet. Stage setting at least correct. More
A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct. More
A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no... More
A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great... More
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. More
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. More
A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity.... More
A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser... More
A guide book is addressed to those who plan to follow the traveler, doing what he has done, but... More
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other... More
A heroic figure ... not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on him. More
A horse, a buggy and several sets of harness, valued in all at about $250, were stolen last night... More
A hunger flashing in the eye
Which jutting bellies would belie. More
A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is... More
A knowledge that people live close by is,
I think, enough. And even if only first names are... More
A lady is nothing very specific. One man’s lady is another man’s woman; sometimes, one... More
A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to... More
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent... More
A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep... More
A lustreless protrusive eye
Stares from the protozoic slime
At a perspective of... More
A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness. But after that he begins to bunch... More
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man. More
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously,... More
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression. More
A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often... More
A man of great common sense and good taste—meaning thereby a man without originality or moral... More
A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses. More
A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them. More
A man so various, that he seemed to be
Not one, but all mankind’s epitome.
Stiff in... More
A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket. More
A man who has no office to go to—I don’t care who he is—is a trial of which you can have no... More
A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of... More
A man’s death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of... More
A man’s destination is his own village,
His own cooking fire, and his wife’s... More
A man’s destination is not his destiny,
Every country is home to one man
And exile to... More
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own. More
A man’s interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a... More
A meagre, blue-nailed, phthisic hand ... More
A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of... More
A moment in time but time was made through that moment: for without the meaning there is no time,... More
A moment that gave not only itself, but
Also the means of keeping it, of not turning to... More
A more equal, if threadbare illustration of the antithesis between humanism and the gospel of... More
A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they... More
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are. More
A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier. More
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is... More
A novice was sitting on a cornice
High over the city. Angels
Combined their prayers with... More
A pathological business, writing, don’t you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all... More
A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is... More
A people without history
Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern
Of timeless... More
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell. More
A pleasant smell of frying sausages
Attacks the sense, along with an old, mostly... More
A poem is like a person. Though it has a family tree, it is important not because of its... More
A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former... More
A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondency, an... More
A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A... More
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his... More
A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind. More
A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a... More
A quick caress she gives the rose,
Lilac, geranium all in season . . .
Oh, if she might... More
A rat crept softly through the vegetation
Dragging its slimy belly on the bank
While I... More

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