Modernist Quotes

He is romantic—romantic,” he repeated. “And that is very bad—very bad. . . . Very good, too,” he add...

This compulsion to an activity without respite, without variety, without result was so cruel that on...

He suffered greatly from being shut up among all these people whose stupidity and absurdities wounde...

TO VICTOR HUGO OF MY CROW PLUTO “Even when the bird is walking we know that it has wings.”—VICTOR HU...

In the days of Prismatic Colornot in the days of Adam and Eve, but when Adam was alone; when there w...

TO A GIRAFFE If it is unpermissible, in fact fatal to be personal and undesirable to be literal—detr...

ROSEMARY Beauty and Beauty’s son and rosemary— Venus and Love, her son, to speak plainly— born of th...

He himself, Anthony went on to think, he himself had chosen to regard the whole process as either po...