This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.

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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is,...

For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is,...

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most...

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most...

Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not...

Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not...

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by...

Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by...

Life, the way it really is, is a battle not between Bad and Good but...

Life, the way it really is, is a battle not between Bad and Good but...

Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and...

Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and...

Bad literature is a form of treason.

Bad literature is a form of treason.

It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.

It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.

The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any...

The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any...

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

Bad literature is a form of treason.

Bad literature is a form of treason.

Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.

Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.

Who included me among the ranks of the human race?

Who included me among the ranks of the human race?

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if...

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if...

Man is what he reads.

Man is what he reads.