Essays Quotes

I think—the hero observes that nothing is so frightening as a labyrinth with no center.

Only where there is life can there be home.

...were these Essays of mine considerable enough to deserve a critical judgment, it might then, I th...

Had I been placed among those nations which are said to live still in the sweet freedom of nature's ...

For the modern consciousness, the artist (replacing the saint) is the exemplary sufferer. And among ...

The photographer is now charging real beasts, beleaguered and too rare to kill. Guns have metamorpho...

A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photograp...

You are a hater of activity in life; quite right, for before there can be any meaning in activity, l...

I am alive to a usual objection to what is clearly part of my programme for the metier of poetry. Th...

I go on writing in both respectable and despised genres because I respect them all, rejoice in their...

At this point, I want to say point-blank what I hope is already clear: though agrarianism proposes t...

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.

As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignoranc...

For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, let it change into ...

I'm a writer by profession and it's totally clear to me that since I started blogging, the amount I ...

You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.

New Rule: Never underestimate the ability of a tiny fringe group of losers to ruin everything. We've...

Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person...

Apparently Burgess shares the gutter press assumption that those who achieve fame should be made to ...

...Surely the Board knows what democracy is. It is the line that forms on the right. It is the don’t...

REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed i...

REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed i...

REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed i...

REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed i...