"There is no frigate like a book"

-- Emily Dickinson

“For how many generations now had his people been turning their backs on things? How long had they sat in their living rooms and watched other people die?”

Source : Clare B. Dunkle (2010). “The Sky Inside”, p.205, Simon and Schuster
“I once had a dream about getting a marriage, house in the country, and at the end of the day we'd retire, but I'm never going to retire.”
“Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.”
“I don't want to run around with new people. I feel safer with my friends.”
“even The bed of love, that in the imagination Had seemed to be the giver of all peace, Is no more than a wine-cup in the tasting, And as soon finished.”
“Screw guilt -- I could have sex with 10 men and it wouldn't bother me. I'm an atheist!”
“African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.”
“The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes.”

Source : Edmund Wilson (1951). “Memoirs of Hecate County”

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