William Carlos Williams On This Is Just To Say
William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably…
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Wallace Earle Stegner On Wilderness
Wallace Earle Stegner (February 18, 1909 – April 13, 1993) Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the…
Hermann Hesse On Solitude
Hermann Hesse (July 02, 1877 – August 09, 1962) Solitude is the path over which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself. Solitude is the…
Olivia Laing On Loneliness
Olivia Laing (April 14, 1977 -) You can be lonely anywhere, but there is a particular flavour to the loneliness that comes from living in…
Philip Milton Roth On Writing
Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) Writing turns you into somebody who’s always wrong. The illusion that you may get it…
Susan Sontag On Time And Space
Susan Sontag (January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once … and space exists so…
Lincoln Steffens On Knowledge
Lincoln Steffens (April 6, 1866–August 9, 1936) It is our knowledge — the things we are sure of — that makes the world go wrong…
