And the good writer chooses his words for their ‘meaning’, but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-board. It comes up with roots, with associations, with how and where the word is familiarly used, or where it has been used brilliantly or memorably.
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. It doesn’t matter whether the good writer wants to be useful, or whether the good writer wants to be harm.
The critic who doesn’t make a personal statement, in remeasurements he himself has made, is merely an unreliable critic. He is not a measurer but a repeater of other men’s results. KRINO, to pick out for oneself, to choose. That’s what the word means.
All things are a-flowing,′ sage Heraclitus says, but a tawdry cheapness shall outlast all days.
A great spirit has been amongst us, and a great artist is gone.
I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It’s listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
Either move or be moved.
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.