Pretentiousness Quotes

July 7, 1986: Montreux It is only now that I realize the importance of a biography. I mean I always ...

I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it

lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you w...

If you ask a twenty-one-year-old poet whose poetry he likes, he might say, unblushing, "Nobody's," I...

don’t be like so many writers,don’t be like so many thousands ofpeople who call themselves writers,d...

Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borro...