Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

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Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.

Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.

The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives...

The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives...

The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back...

The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back...

When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some...

When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some...

Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.

Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.

The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is...

The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is...

Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.

Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.

People have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be...

People have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be...

There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play...

There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play...

The tension between yes and o, between I can and I cannot, makes us feel...

The tension between yes and o, between I can and I cannot, makes us feel...

If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's...

If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's...

The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back...

The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back...

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed...

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed...

It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking...

It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking...

If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's...

If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's...

A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their...

A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their...

Language is memory and metaphor

Language is memory and metaphor

In recent decades this symbolic or metaphorical lyric has given way to one which leans...

In recent decades this symbolic or metaphorical lyric has given way to one which leans...

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic,...

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic,...

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what...

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what...